Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920

Author/Contributor(s):	Calcaterra, Angela
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	12/17/2018
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters"--