A01=Angela Calcaterra
aesthetics in American literature
American literary history
American literature and culture
American national identity
Amos Bad Heart Bull
Author_Angela Calcaterra
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Catawba
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Charles Alexander Eastman
Cherokee
colonial New England
colonial North Carolina
colonial Virginia
Cross-cultural encounter
Custer's Last Stand
Custer’s Last Stand
Dakota
eighteenth-century American literature
eighteenth-century travel writing
Eleazar Wheelock
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Haudenosaunee Confederacy
Indian wars
intercultural exchange in early America
Iroquois
James Fenimore Cooper
Lakota
ledger art
literary representations of Native Americans
Lydia Sigourney
Mohegan
Native American literature
Native American oral tradition
nineteenth-century American literature
nineteenth-century American poetry
Osage
Pawnee
Protestant missionaries in colonial America
Rain-in-the-Face
Samson Occom
Sitting Bull
wampum diplomacy
Washington Irving
William Byrd II
Product details
- ISBN 9781469646947
- Weight: 393g
- Dimensions: 155 x 233mm
- Publication Date: 30 Dec 2018
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production.
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. Focused on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics, in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.
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. Focused on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics, in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.
Angela Calcaterra is assistant professor of English at the University of North Texas.
