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Unconventional Politics - Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy (Paperback)
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Unconventional Politics - Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and U.S. Indian Policy (Paperback)
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Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women
writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened
indigenous people’s existence. The conventional genres they
sometimes adopted—the sensationalistic captivity narrative,
sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction,
and the mass-circulated commercial magazine—typically had been
used to reinforce the oppressive policies of removal, war, and
allotment. But in Unconventional Politics Janet Dean explores how
four authors, Sarah Wakefield, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the
Muscogee/Creek S. Alice Callahan, and the Cherokee Ora V. Eddleman,
converted these frameworks to serve a politics of dissent.
Intervening in current debates in feminist and Native American
literary criticism, Dean shows how these women advocated for Native
Americans by both politicizing conventional literature and
employing literary skill to respond to national policy. Dean argues
that in protesting U.S. Indian policy through popular genres,
Wakefield, Sigourney, Callahan, and Eddleman also critiqued
cultural protocols and stretched the contours of accepted modes of
feminine discourse. Their acts of improvisation and reinvention
tell a new story about the development of American women’s
writing and political expression.
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Imprint: |
University of Massachusetts Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
August 2016 |
Authors: |
Janet Dean
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-62534-203-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-62534-203-9 |
Barcode: |
9781625342034 |
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