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Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920

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"Countering the prevailing notion of the "literary Indian" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters"--

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Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 2018, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469646947

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Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 2018, University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill

ISBN-13: 9781469646930

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