David J. Carlson

Sovereign Selves

American Indian Autobiography and the Law

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness".

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 346g
• ISBN-13: 9780252072666
• ISBN-10: 0252072669
• Artikelnr.: 22043514

Autorenporträt

David Carlson is an assistant professor of English at California State University, San Bernardino.

Inhaltsangabe

Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Discourse of Indian Law
2. Seneca Politics and the Rhetoric of Engagement
3. William Apess and the Constraints of Conversion
4. William Apess and Indian Liberalism
5. Charles Eastman and the Discourse of Allotment
6. Charles Eastman and the Rights of Character
Conclusion: Toward Self-Sovereignty
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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