Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy

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Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy

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

Creator

• Dean, Janet, 1965-

Author

• Dean, Janet, 1965-

Subject

• Callahan, S. Alice, 1868- -- Criticism and interpretation
• Eddleman, Ora V, 1880-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Frau
• Frauenliteratur
• Gattung
• Indianer
• Indians in literature
• Indians of North America -- Government relations | History -- 19th century
• American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
• Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Regierung
• Sigourney, L. H., (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation
• USA
• Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Criticism and interpretation
• Widerstand
• Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Literatur
• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism

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"--

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DLC

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810.9/928708997

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS152

LC item number

.D43 2016

Literary form

non fiction

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bibliography