Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature /

Domestic subjects : gender, citizenship, and law in Native American literature /

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"In the late nineteenth century, the Indian Wars took a turn to the domestic, as assimilation policies moved the site of violence from the battlefield into the home. The cornerstone policies of the assimilation campaigns - land allotment, compulsory education for Indian children, and regulation...

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Author / Creator: Piatote, Beth H., 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Imprint: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Series:Henry Roe Cloud series on American Indians and modernity.
Subjects:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Canadian literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American fiction > Women authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.
Families in literature.
Citizenship in literature.
Ethnic relations in literature.
Indian women in literature.
American literature > Indian authors.
American fiction > Women authors.
Canadian literature > Indian authors.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • A Note on Terminology
  • Introduction
  • 1. Entangled Love
  • Marriage, Consent, and National Belonging in Works by E. Pauline Johnson and John M. Oskison
  • 2. Unnatural Children
  • Adoption and Loss in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema and E. Pauline Johnson's "Catharine of the 'Crow's Nest'"
  • 3. Preoccupations
  • Labor, Land, and Performance in Mourning Dove's Cogewea
  • 4. The Long Arm of Lone Wolf
  • Disciplinary Paternalism and the Problem of Agency in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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