Unsettling Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau and Indigenous culture
Indigenous critiques of Thoreau
Indigenous perspectives on Thoreau
Indigenous worldviews in Thoreau's writings
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literary responses to settler colonialism
Native American influence on transcendentalism
Native American representations in Thoreau
Native epistemologies in Thoreau's work
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
representations of Native cultures in transcendentalism
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settler colonialism in American literature
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Thoreau and American Indian policy
Thoreau and cross-cultural encounters
Thoreau and cultural appropriation debates
Thoreau and decolonial scholarship
Thoreau and environmental humanities
Thoreau and environmental justice
Thoreau and Indigenous dispossession
Thoreau and Native American studies
Thoreau and racial identity in the 19th century
Thoreau and settler colonial critique
Thoreau and the politics of erasure
Thoreau's admiration of Native lifeways
Thoreau's critique of Western modernity
Thoreau's ecological ethics and Indigenous thought
Thoreau's engagement with Native cosmology
Thoreau's ethical contradictions
Thoreau's fascination with Native spirituality
Thoreau's Indian Notebooks analysis
Thoreau's moral ambiguity
Thoreau's role in colonial discourse
Thoreau's silence on Native genocide
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- ISBN 9781625348340
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Sep 2024
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Henry David Thoreau’s interest in Native Americans is widely known and a recurring topic of scholarly attention, yet it is also a source of debate. This is a figure who both had a deep interest in Native American history and culture and was seen by many of his contemporaries, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne, as “more like an Indian” than his white neighbors. At the same time, Thoreau did little to protest the systematic dispossession of Indigenous people across the country in his lifetime. John J. Kucich charges into this contradiction, considering how Thoreau could demonstrate respect for Native American beliefs on one hand and ignore the genocide of this group, actively happening throughout his life, on the other. Thoreau’s long study of Native peoples, as reflected in so much of his writing, allowed him to glimpse an Indigenous worldview, but it never fully freed him from the blind spots of settler colonialism.
Drawing on Indigenous studies and critiques of settler colonialism, as well as new materialist approaches that illustrate Thoreau’s radical reimagining of the relationship between humans and the natural world, Unsettling Thoreau explores the stakes of Thoreau’s effort to live mindfully and ethically in place when living alongside, or replacing marginalized peoples. By examining the vast sweep of his writings, including the unpublished Indian Notebooks, and placing them alongside Native writers and communities in and beyond New England, this book gauges Thoreau’s effort to use Indigenous knowledge to reimagine a settler colonial world, without removing him from its trappings.
Drawing on Indigenous studies and critiques of settler colonialism, as well as new materialist approaches that illustrate Thoreau’s radical reimagining of the relationship between humans and the natural world, Unsettling Thoreau explores the stakes of Thoreau’s effort to live mindfully and ethically in place when living alongside, or replacing marginalized peoples. By examining the vast sweep of his writings, including the unpublished Indian Notebooks, and placing them alongside Native writers and communities in and beyond New England, this book gauges Thoreau’s effort to use Indigenous knowledge to reimagine a settler colonial world, without removing him from its trappings.
John J. Kucich is professor of English at Bridgewater State University. He is editor of Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau’s Legacy in an Unsettled Land and author of Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He has also contributed essays to a number of collections, including Thoreau Beyond Borders: New International Essays on America’s Most Famous Nature Writer and Thoreau in Context, and has been published in the Thoreau Society Bulletin and The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies.
