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Autore |
Rifkin Mark |
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Titolo |
Settler Common Sense [[electronic resource] ] : Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Soggetti |
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Homosexuality in literature |
Indians in literature |
Queer theory |
American literature - History and criticism - 19th century |
Languages & Literatures |
English |
American Literature |
Literature - General |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on the Cover; 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 Self hood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden; 4 Dreaming of Urban Dispersion Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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