Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920

Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920

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