| Indian Nation: Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms Contributor(s): Walker, Cheryl (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822319446 ISBN-13: 9780822319443 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $26.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1997 Annotation: "Cheryl Walker demonstrates the integral parts played by native Americans in the development of the nineteenth-century American discourse about nationality. Not only does this important scholarly work remind us how fundamentally democratic institutions are indebted to native American cultures, it also teaches us that native Americans have been actively and complexly involved in the crucial political debates of our modernity. "Indian Nation" helps dismantle the odious but persistent myth of the 'Vanishing American.'"--John Carlos Rowe, University of California, Irvine ""Indian Nation" offers thorough scholarship, good sense, and a clear style. The insightful overviews and fine brief accounts of Pearce, Slotkin, and Rogin are particularly valuable."--Arnold Krupat, Sarah Lawrence College |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 96043795 |
| Lexile Measure: 1440 |
| Series: New Americanists |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 6.06" W x 9.04" (1.02 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Indian Nation documents the contributions of Native Americans to the notion of American nationhood and to concepts of American identity at a crucial, defining time in U.S. history. Departing from previous scholarship, Cheryl Walker turns the "usual" questions on their heads, asking not how whites experienced indigenous peoples, but how Native Americans envisioned the United States as a nation. This project unfolds a narrative of participatory resistance in which Indians themselves sought to transform the discourse of nationhood. Walker examines the rhetoric and writings of nineteenth-century Native Americans, including William Apess, Black Hawk, George Copway, John Rollin Ridge, and Sarah Winnemucca. Demonstrating with unique detail how these authors worked to transform venerable myths and icons of American identity, Indian Nation chronicles Native American participation in the forming of an American nationalism in both published texts and speeches that were delivered throughout the United States. Pottawattomie Chief Simon Pokagon's "The Red Man's Rebuke," an important document of Indian oratory, is published here in its entirety for the first time since 1893. By looking at this writing through the lens of the best theoretical work on nationality, postcoloniality, and the subaltern, Walker creates a new and encompassing picture of the relationship between Native Americans and whites. She shows that, contrary to previous studies, America in the nineteenth century was intercultural in significant ways. |