Early native American writing : new critical essays / edited by Helen Jaskoski.

Other author Jaskoski, Helen.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Descriptionxv, 238 pages ; 24 cm.
Subjects

SeriesCambridge studies in American literature and culture ; 102
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture 102. ^A664069
Contents Foreword / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff -- 'Honoratissimi benefactores': Native American students and two seventeenth-century texts in the university tradition / Wolfgang Hochbruck and Beatrix Dudensing-Reichel -- 'Pray sir, consider a little': rituals of subordination and strategies of resistance in the letters of Hezekiah Calvin and David Fowler to Eleazar Wheelock / Laura J. Murray -- '(I speak like a fool but I am constrained)': Samson Occom's Short narrative and economies of the racial self / Dana D. Nelson -- 'Where, then, shall we place the hero of the wilderness?': William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip and doctrines of racial destiny / Anne Marie Dannenberg -- 'They ought to enjoy the home of their father': the treaty of 1838, Seneca intellectuals, and literary genesis / Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr. -- 'I am Joaquin!': space and freedom in Yellow Bird's The Life and adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the celebrated California bandit / John Lowe --
Contents 'This voluminous unwritten book of ours': early Native American writers and the oral tradition / William M. Clements -- 'A terrible sickness among them': smallpox and stories of the frontier / Helen Jaskoski -- 'A desirable citizen, a practical business man': G.W. Grayson--Creek mixed blood, nationalist, and autobiographer / Robert F. Sayre -- 'An Indian...and American': ethnicity, assimilation, and balance in Charles Eastman's From the deep woods to civilization / Erik Peterson -- 'Overcoming all obstacles': the assimilation debate in Native American women's journalism of the Dawes era / Carol Batker -- 'My people...my kind': Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the half-blood as a narrative of mixed descent / Martha L. Viehmann -- 'Because I understand the storytelling art': the evolution of D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
LCCN 95026723
ISBN0521555094 (hardback)
ISBN0521555272 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks PS153.I52 E27 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold