What Jane Knew (eBook)

Anishinaabe Stories and American Imperialism, 1815–1845

Maureen Konkle (Autor)

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2024
442 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-7539-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The children of an influential Ojibwe-Anglo family, Jane Johnston and her brother George were already accomplished writers when the Indian agent Henry Rowe Schoolcraft arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1822. Charged by Michigan's territorial governor with collecting information on Anishinaabe people, he soon married Jane, "e;discovered"e; the family's writings, and began soliciting them for traditional Anishinaabe stories. But what began as literary play became the setting for political struggle. Jane and her family wrote with attention to the beauty of Anishinaabe narratives and to their expression of an Anishinaabe world that continued to coexist with the American republic. But Schoolcraft appropriated the stories and published them as his own writing, seeking to control their meaning and to destroy their impact in service to the "e;civilizing"e; interests of the United States. In this dramatic story, Maureen Konkle helps recover the literary achievements of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft and her kin, revealing as never before how their lives and work shed light on nineteenth-century struggles over the future of Indigenous people in the United States.

Autor

Maureen Konkle is associate professor of English at the University of Missouri.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.4.2024
• Zusatzinfo: 19 halftones, 1 map, notes, bibl.
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: American imperialism • American literature 19th century • Anishinaabe literature 19th century • Anishinaabe traditional narrative • Anna Brownell Jameson, 1794-1860 • antebellum literature • Assiginack, 1768-1866 • Charlotte Johnston McMurray, 1806-1878 • Elizabeth Oakes Smith, 1806-1893 • George Johnston, 1796-1861 • Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, 1796-1864 • Henry Wordsworth Longfellow, 1807-1882 • Indian Removal • Indians in antebellum literature • Indigenous expulsion, 19th century • Indigenous intellectual history 19th century • Indigenous literature • Indigenous literature 19th century • Indigenous literature history • Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, 1800-1842 • Margaret Fuller, 1810-1850 • Odawa literature 19th century • Ojibwe literature 19th century • Ozhaawshkodewikwe, c. 1772-1843 • savage-civilized narrative • settler colonialism in the U.S. • Song of Hiawatha • Waabojiig, c. 1747-1793 • William Miengun Johnston, 1811-1863
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-7539-0 / 1469675390
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-7539-8 / 9781469675398