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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811030103321

Autore

Smith Sherry L (Sherry Lynn), <1951->

Titolo

Reimagining Indians : native Americans through Anglo eyes, 1880-1940 / / Sherry L. Smith [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-771580-X

0-19-028580-X

1-280-47356-8

0-19-535043-X

0-19-518052-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (286 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

810.9/897

Soggetti

American literature - 20th century - History and criticism

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Indians in literature

Literature and history - United States - History - 20th century

Literature and history - United States - History - 19th century

Indians of North America - Government relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 From Enemy to Inspiration: Charles Erskine Scott Wood and the Meaning of Indians; 3 George Bird Grinnell and the "Vanishing" Plains Indian Cultures; 4 Among the Blackfeet: Walter McClintock and Mary Roberts Rinehart; 5 Native Son: Frank Bird Linderman; 6 Charles Fletcher Lummis and the Fight for the Multicultural Southwest; 7 Out of Arizona: George Wharton James; 8 Sisters of the Southwest: Mary Austin and Anna Ickes; 9 Mabel Dodge Luhan: Muse of Taos; Conclusion; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Reimagining Indians investigates an important group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understandings and appreciations of Indian peoples at the turn of the 20th century.