The Black Indian in American Literature
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2013
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-38917-6 (ISBN)
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-38917-6 (ISBN)
The first book-length study of the figure of the black Indian in American Literature, this project explores themes of nation, culture, and performativity. Moving from the Post-Independence period to the Contemporary era, Byars-Nichols re-centers a marginalized group challenges stereotypes and conventional ways of thinking about race and culture.
Keely Byars-Nichols is an Assistant Professor of English at Mount Olive College, USA.
Introduction: Within Our Borders and On Our Borders: Negotiating Shared Black and Native Histories 1. Assuming the Habit of the Country: John Marrant's Narrative and Playing Indian 2. Domesticated Savagery: Blackness and Indigeneity in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick and Elizabeth Stoddard's Temple House 3. On Precarious Footing: William Faulkner's Sam Fathers and the Specter of Slavery 4. Black Nationalism and Native Separatism Unhinged: Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon 5. The First Black Indian: Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead Conclusion: Toward a Black Indian Poetics and Politics
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.11.2013 |
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Zusatzinfo | 2 Illustrations, black and white; VIII, 129 p. 2 illus. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
Sozialwissenschaften | |
ISBN-10 | 1-137-38917-6 / 1137389176 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-137-38917-6 / 9781137389176 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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