Inventing the American Primitive Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions, 1789-1936

Name: Inventing the American Primitive Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions, 1789-1936
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ISBN: 9780814715499

ISBN-10: 0814715494

ISBN-13: 9780814715499

Edition: 1996

Authors: Helen Carr

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A valuable and major contribution to its field and to the associated interdisciplinary debates. --Jim PhillipUniversity of Essex American mainstream culture has always been fascinated with the notion of the primitive, particularly as embodied by Native Americans. In Inventing the American Primitive, Helen Carr illustrates how responses to the existence of Native American traditions have shaped ideas of American identity and American literature. Inventing the American Primitive examines a body of work, both literary and anthropological, that describes, inscribes, translates and transforms Native American myths and poetry. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, as well as…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/1/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Abbreviations


Introduction



The American Indian and the New Republic



The Beginnings of Romantic Nationalism



The Myth of Hiawatha



Reading the Savage Mind



In Other Words


Bibliography


Index