| Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry Contributor(s): Hessell, Nikki (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438484771 ISBN-13: 9781438484778 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Native American - History | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 821.709 |
| LCCN: 2020048370 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 270 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims. In Sensitive Negotiations, Nikki Hessell uses examples from North America, Africa, and the Pacific to show how these Indigenous figures quoted lines from famous poets like Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans to build sympathy and community with their audience. Hessell makes new connections by setting aside European-derived genre barriers to bring literary studies to bear on the study of diplomacy and scholarship from diplomatic history and Indigenous studies to bear on literary criticism. By connecting British Romantic poetry with Indigenous diplomatic texts, artefacts, and rituals, Hessell reimagines poetry as diplomatic and diplomacy as poetic. |