Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 (eBook)

Kate Flint (Autor)

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2020
392 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-21025-4 (ISBN)

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This book takes a fascinating look at the iconic figure of the Native American in the British cultural imagination from the Revolutionary War to the early twentieth century, and examining how Native Americans regarded the British, as well as how they challenged their own cultural image in Britain during this period. Kate Flint shows how the image of the Indian was used in English literature and culture for a host of ideological purposes, and she reveals its crucial role as symbol, cultural myth, and stereotype that helped to define British identity and its attitude toward the colonial world.Through close readings of writers such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and D. H. Lawrence, Flint traces how the figure of the Indian was received, represented, and transformed in British fiction and poetry, travelogues, sketches, and journalism, as well as theater, paintings, and cinema. She describes the experiences of the Ojibwa and Ioway who toured Britain with George Catlin in the 1840s; the testimonies of the Indians in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show; and the performances and polemics of the Iroquois poet Pauline Johnson in London. Flint explores transatlantic conceptions of race, the role of gender in writings by and about Indians, and the complex political and economic relationships between Britain and America.The Transatlantic Indian, 1776-1930 argues that native perspectives are essential to our understanding of transatlantic relations in this period and the development of transnational modernity.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.6.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 40 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • adventure fiction • African Americans • American Frontier • american notes • American Studies • Anecdote • Anglo • Barbarian • Black Elk • british people • Captivity Narrative • Civilisation (TV series) • Civilization • Colonialism • Colonization • Contemporary Society • Criticism • cruelty • cultural assimilation • Culture of India • dichotomy • Elizabeth Gaskell • Eloquence • enthusiasm • Epithet • expansionism • First Nations • George Copway • George Egerton • greatness • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • hypocrisy • Illustration • Indian people • Indigenous peoples • Indigenous peoples of the Americas • interracial marriage • James Fenimore Cooper • Leslie Marmon Silko • Literature • Lyrical Ballads • Manifest Destiny • Manliness (book) • mary howitt • Mary Kingsley • Masculinity • miscegenation • Missionary • Modernity • Mr. • Mrs. • narrative • national identity • Native Americans in the United States • newspaper • Nobility • Noble savage • North America • novelist • Ojibwe • Parody • pauline johnson • picturesque • pity • Poetry • popular culture • Prejudice • Primitivism • Princeton University • Prose • Protagonist • Publication • Quakers • racial hierarchy • Racism • Red Shirt (Oglala) • Republicanism • rhetoric • Rutgers University • sensibility • Sitting Bull • Slavery • Squaw • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Supporter • Sympathy • The Dispossessed • The Great Exhibition • The Other Hand • Travels (book) • Triumphalism • Victorian Era • Wampum • Wealth • white people • Wild West shows • William Cullen Bryant • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-21025-X / 069121025X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-21025-4 / 9780691210254