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Settler common sense : queerness and everyday colonialism in the American Renaissance / Mark Rifkin.

Rifkin, Mark, 1974- (author.).

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"In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book invokes white settlers in southern Maine as the basis for its ethics of improvement, eliding the persistent presence of Wabanaki peoples in their homeland. Rifkin suggests that Henry David Thoreau's Walden critiques property ownership as a form of perpetual debt. Thoreau's vision of autoerotic withdrawal into the wilderness, though, depends on recasting spaces from which Native peoples have been dispossessed as places of non-Native regeneration. As against the turn to "nature," Herman Melville's Pierre presents the city as a perversely pleasurable place to escape from inequities of land ownership in the country. Rifkin demonstrates how this account of urban possibility overlooks the fact that the explosive growth of Manhattan in the nineteenth century was possible only because of the extensive and progressive displacement of Iroquois peoples upstate. Rifkin reveals how these texts' queer imaginings rely on treating settler notions of place and personhood as self-evident, erasing the advancing expropriation and occupation of Native lands. Further, he investigates the ways that contemporary queer ethics and politics take such ongoing colonial dynamics as an unexamined framework in developing ideas of freedom and justice."-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9780816690572
  • ISBN: 081669057X
  • ISBN: 9780816690602
  • ISBN: 081669060X
  • Physical Description: xxii, 293 pages ; 22 cm
  • Publisher: Minneapolis ; University of Minnesota Press, [2014]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-273) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- 1. Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation -- 2. Romancing the State of Nature: Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables -- 3. Loving Oneself Like a Nation: Sovereign Selfhood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden -- 4. Dreaming of Urban Dispersion: Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre.

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel 1804-1864 The house of the seven gables
Thoreau, Henry David 1817-1862 Walden, or life in the woods
Melville, Herman 1819-1891 Pierre, or the ambiguities
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Queer theory.
Homosexuality in literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Gay Studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Native American.
American literature.
Homosexuality in literature.
Indians in literature.
Queer theory.
Roman
Indianer Motiv
Rechtsstellung Motiv
Homosexualität Motiv
USA
Amerikansk litteratur > historia.
Indianer i litteraturen.
Homosexualitet i litteraturen.
Queerteori.
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