LEADER 04884nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910813050903321 005 20240418024115.0 010 $a1-283-89011-9 010 $a0-8122-0122-1 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812201222 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707619 035 $a(OCoLC)697899806 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641603 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000786988 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11466590 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000786988 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10813241 035 $a(PQKB)10327065 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21375 035 $a(DE-B1597)448976 035 $a(OCoLC)979968208 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812201222 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441768 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420261 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441768 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707619 100 $a20000428d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe demon of the continent$b[electronic resource] $eIndians and the shaping of American literature /$fJoshua David Bellin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2001 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-1748-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [211]-258) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. Indian Conversions -- $tChapter Two. The Charm of the Indian -- $tChapter Three. Radical Faiths -- $tInterlude -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter Four. Stories of the Land -- $tChapter Five. Mind out of Time -- $tChapter Six. Myth and the State -- $tChapter Seven. Traditional Histories -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants of American-rather than specifically Native American-literature. The notion that the presence of Indian peoples shaped American literature as a whole remains unexplored.In The Demon of the Continent, Joshua David Bellin probes the complex interrelationships among Native American and Euro-American cultures and literatures from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He asserts that cultural contact is at the heart of American literature. For Bellin, previous studies of Indians in American literature have focused largely on the images Euro-American writers constructed of indigenous peoples, and have thereby only perpetuated those images. Unlike authors of those earlier studies, Bellin refuses to reduce Indians to static antagonists or fodder for a Euro-American imagination.Drawing on works such as Henry David Thoreau's Walden, William Apess' A Son of the Forest, and little known works such as colonial Indian conversion narratives, he explores the ways in which these texts reflect and shape the intercultural world from which they arose. In doing so, Bellin reaches surprising conclusions: that Walden addresses economic clashes and partnerships between Indians and whites; that William Bartram's Travels encodes competing and interpenetrating systems of Indian and white landholding; that Catherine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie enacts the antebellum drama of Indian conversion; that James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow struggled with Indian authors such as George Copway and David Cusick for physical, ideological, and literary control of the nation.The Demon of the Continent proves Indians to be actors in the dynamic processes in which America and its literature are inescapably embedded. Shifting the focus from textual images to the sites of material, ideological, linguistic, and aesthetic interaction between peoples, Bellin reenvisions American literature as the product of contact, conflict, accommodation, and interchange. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians in literature 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aNative American Studies. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 676 $a810.9/3520392 686 $aHR 1520$2rvk 700 $aBellin$b Joshua David$01593365 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813050903321 996 $aThe demon of the continent$93913459 997 $aUNINA