LEADER 03194oam 22005414a 450 001 9910493671103321 005 20200402172011.0 010 $a0-8139-4246-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000007695891 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5710137 035 $a(OCoLC)1086210886 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse73435 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007695891 100 $a20181102d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA New Continent of Liberty$eEunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich /$fGeoff Hamilton 210 1$aCharlottesville :$cUniversity of Virginia Press,$d2019. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE, $d2019 210 4$dİ2019. 215 $a1 online resource (220 pages) 311 $a0-8139-4245-4 311 $a0-8139-4244-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aEunomia regained and lost: Thomas Jefferson and Samson Occom -- Prospective domination, retrospective liberation: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Apess -- Lighting out, circling in: Mark Twain and Sarah Winnemucca -- The tent and the thipi I: Ernest Hemingway and Zitkala-Sa -- The tent and the thipi II: Joseph Heller and N. Scott Momaday -- Eunomia lost and regained: Don Delillo, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor. 330 $a"Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aSocial structure in literature 606 $aNatural law in literature 606 $aAutonomy in literature 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial structure in literature. 615 0$aNatural law in literature. 615 0$aAutonomy in literature. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a810.9/897 700 $aHamilton$b Geoff$f1972-$01034549 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910493671103321 996 $aA New Continent of Liberty$92453746 997 $aUNINA