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Inventing the American primitive : politics, gender, and the representation of Native American literary traditions, 1789-1936 Cover Image Book Book

Inventing the American primitive : politics, gender, and the representation of Native American literary traditions, 1789-1936

Carr, Helen. (Author).

Summary: American 'mainstream' culture has always been fascinated with the notion of the 'primitive', particularly as embodied by Native Americans. In Inventing the American Primitive, Helen Carr illustrates how responses to the existence of Native American traditions have shaped ideas of American identity and American literature.

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  • ISBN: 0814715486
  • ISBN: 9780814715482
  • ISBN: 0814715494 (pbk.)
  • ISBN: 9780814715499 (pbk.)
  • Physical Description: print
    286 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New York University Press, 1996.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. The American Indian and the New Republic -- 2. The Beginnings of Romantic Nationalism -- 3. The Myth of Hiawatha -- 4. Reading the Savage Mind -- 5. In Other Words.

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Subject: American literature History and criticism
Indians in literature
American literature Indian authors Appreciation United States
Literature and anthropology United States History
National characteristics, American, in literature
Politics and literature United States History
United States Civilization Indian influences
Indians of North America Intellectual life
Indians of North America Historiography
Ethnic relations in literature
Primitivism in literature
Sex role in literature

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Lummi Library PS 173 .I6 C37 1996 279057 Stacks Reshelving -
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