The Resource Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy, Janet Dean, (electronic resource)
Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy, Janet Dean, (electronic resource)
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- Summary
- "Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous people's existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted--the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction, and the mass-circulated commercial magazine--typically had been used to reinforce the oppressive policies of removal, war, and allotment. But in Unconventional Politics Janet Dean explores how four authors, Sarah Wakefield, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the Muscogee/Creek S. Alice Callahan, and the Cherokee Ora V. Eddleman, converted these frameworks to serve a politics of dissent. Intervening in current debates in feminist and Native American literary criticism, Dean shows how these women advocated for Native Americans by both politicizing conventional literature and employing literary skill to respond to national policy. Dean argues that in protesting U.S. Indian policy through popular genres, Wakefield, Sigourney, Callahan, and Eddleman also critiqued cultural protocols and stretched the contours of accepted modes of feminine discourse. Their acts of improvisation and reinvention tell a new story about the development of American women's writing and political expression" --
- Language
- eng
- Contents
-
- Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention
- Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative
- "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments
- Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest
- Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity
- Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist indigenist reinvention
- Isbn
- 9781625342034
- Label
- Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy
- Title
- Unconventional politics
- Title remainder
- nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy
- Statement of responsibility
- Janet Dean
- Title variation
- Nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy
- Subject
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- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Callahan, S. Alice, 1868- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Eddleman, Ora V, 1880-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Indians in literature
- American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Criticism and interpretation
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Indians of North America -- Government relations | History -- 19th century
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous people's existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted--the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction, and the mass-circulated commercial magazine--typically had been used to reinforce the oppressive policies of removal, war, and allotment. But in Unconventional Politics Janet Dean explores how four authors, Sarah Wakefield, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the Muscogee/Creek S. Alice Callahan, and the Cherokee Ora V. Eddleman, converted these frameworks to serve a politics of dissent. Intervening in current debates in feminist and Native American literary criticism, Dean shows how these women advocated for Native Americans by both politicizing conventional literature and employing literary skill to respond to national policy. Dean argues that in protesting U.S. Indian policy through popular genres, Wakefield, Sigourney, Callahan, and Eddleman also critiqued cultural protocols and stretched the contours of accepted modes of feminine discourse. Their acts of improvisation and reinvention tell a new story about the development of American women's writing and political expression" --
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Dean, Janet
- Dewey number
- 810.9/928708997
- LC call number
- PS152
- LC item number
- .D43 2016
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Wakefield, Sarah F.
- Sigourney, L. H.
- Callahan, S. Alice
- Eddleman, Ora V
- American literature
- American literature
- Indians in literature
- Indians of North America
- Politics and literature
- Women and literature
- Label
- Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy, Janet Dean, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention -- Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative -- "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments -- Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest -- Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity -- Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist indigenist reinvention
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0001732208
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Isbn
- 9781625342034
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016012906
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001732208
- Label
- Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy, Janet Dean, (electronic resource)
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Contents
- Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention -- Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative -- "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments -- Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest -- Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity -- Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist indigenist reinvention
- Control code
- OCM1bookssj0001732208
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Isbn
- 9781625342034
- Isbn Type
- (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Lccn
- 2016012906
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (WaSeSS)bookssj0001732208
Subject
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Callahan, S. Alice, 1868- -- Criticism and interpretation
- Eddleman, Ora V, 1880-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Indians in literature
- American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
- Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Criticism and interpretation
- Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Indians of North America -- Government relations | History -- 19th century
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