03755nam 2200637 a 450 991079010600332120230725033450.01-280-49703-3978661359226294-012-0686-410.1163/9789401206860(CKB)2670000000187574(OCoLC)785782274(CaPaEBR)ebrary10533564(SSID)ssj0000647534(PQKBManifestationID)11442389(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000647534(PQKBWorkID)10593464(PQKB)11458092(MiAaPQ)EBC3008296(OCoLC)773958478(OCoLC)764302496(OCoLC)781789292(nllekb)BRILL9789401206860(Au-PeEL)EBL3008296(CaPaEBR)ebr10533564(CaONFJC)MIL359226(EXLCZ)99267000000018757420120314d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrSavage songs & wild romances[electronic resource] settler poetry and the indigene, 1830-1880 /John O'LearyNew York Rodopi20111 online resource (216 p.)Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ;138"Writers treated include George Copway, Alfred Domett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George McCrae, Thomas Pringle, George Rusden, Lydia Sigourney, and Alfred Street".--Back cover.New Zealand author, John O'Leary.90-420-3399-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material -- Texts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture -- “Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature -- “We owe them all that we possess”: ‘Savage’ Songs and Laments -- “Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of Sympathy -- Indigenous Romeos and Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas -- “In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse Epics -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Works Cited -- Index.Savage Songs andamp; Wild Romances considers the various types of poetry – from short songs and laments to lengthy ethnographic epics – which nineteenth-century settlers wrote about indigenous peoples as they moved into new territories in North America, South Africa, and Australasia. Drawing on a variety of texts (some virtually unknown), the author demonstrates the range and depth of this verse, suggesting that it exhibited far more interest in, and sympathy for, indigenous peoples than has generally been acknowledged. In so doing, he challenges both the traditional view of this poetry as derivative and eccentric, and more recent postcolonial condemnations of it as racist and imperialist. Instead, he offers a new, more positive reading of this verse, whose openness towards the presence of the indigenous Other he sees as an early expression of the tolerance and cultural relativity characteristic of modern Western society. Writers treated include George Copway, Alfred Domett, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George McCrae, Thomas Pringle, George Rusden, Lydia Sigourney, and Alfred Street.Cross/Cultures138.Indians in literatureNoble savage stereotype in literatureIndians in literature.Noble savage stereotype in literature.821.8093529O'Leary John1480898MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790106003321Savage songs & wild romances3697716UNINA