New Continent of Liberty

Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-0-8139-4244-5
Verlag: University of Virginia Press

Buch, Englisch, 200 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 515 g

The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine distinctive versions of an ideal of self-rule grounded in the natural world. Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent: from often desperate early efforts, pitted against the historical realities of genocide and cultural annihilation, to preserve any sense of self and community, toward expressions of a resurgent autonomy that affirm new, iIndigenous models of eunomia, a fertile blending of human and natural orders.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, Geoff

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Über Autor(innen)

Geoff Hamilton, who teaches humanities at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada, is the author of The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature (Virginia).