Unsettling Thoreau - Kucich, John J
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"Henry David Thoreau's widely known interest in Native Americans has been a recurring topic of attention, yet it is also a source of modern debate. John J. Kucich charges into the contradiction of Thoreau, considering how he could demonstrate respect for this group on one hand and ignore their genocide on the other. Thoreau's long study of Native peoples, as reflected in his writing, allowed him to glimpse an Indigenous worldview, but it never fully freed him from the blind spots of settler colonialism. Drawing on Indigenous studies and critiques of settler colonialism, as well as new…mehr

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"Henry David Thoreau's widely known interest in Native Americans has been a recurring topic of attention, yet it is also a source of modern debate. John J. Kucich charges into the contradiction of Thoreau, considering how he could demonstrate respect for this group on one hand and ignore their genocide on the other. Thoreau's long study of Native peoples, as reflected in his writing, allowed him to glimpse an Indigenous worldview, but it never fully freed him from the blind spots of settler colonialism. Drawing on Indigenous studies and critiques of settler colonialism, as well as new materialist approaches, Unsettling Thoreau explores the stakes of Thoreau's effort to live mindfully and ethically in place when living alongside, or replacing marginalized peoples. By examining the vast sweep of his writings and placing them alongside Native writers and communities, this book gauges Thoreau's effort to use Indigenous knowledge to re-imagine a settler colonial world, without removing him from its trappings"--
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John J. Kucich is professor of English at Bridgewater State University. He is editor of Rediscovering the Maine Woods: Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land and author of Ghostly Communion: Cross-Cultural Spiritualism in Nineteenth Century American Literature. He has also contributed essays to a number of collections, including Thoreau Beyond Borders: New International Essays on America's Most Famous Nature Writer and Thoreau in Context, and has been published in the Thoreau Society Bulletin and The Concord Saunterer: A Journal of Thoreau Studies.