Literary Indians: Aesthetics And Encounter In American Literature To 1920

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"--

• | Author: Angela Calcaterra
• | Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 17, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1469646943
• | ISBN-13: 9781469646947