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Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Laura L. Mielke
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Paperback. Details not only how such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft forecast the inevitable demise of Indian-white sympathy, but also how authors like Lydia Maria Child and William Apess insisted that a language of feeling could be used to create shared community or defend American Indian sovereignty. Series: Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S. Num Pages: 328 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1K; DSBF; GTB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
An old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied a policy of Indian removal. Although these ""moving encounters,"" as Mielke terms them, often promoted the possibility of mutual sympathy between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, they also suggested ... Read more
An old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied a policy of Indian removal. Although these ""moving encounters,"" as Mielke terms them, often promoted the possibility of mutual sympathy between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, they also suggested ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Series
Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S.
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558496316
SKU
V9781558496316
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About Laura L. Mielke
LAURA L. MIELKE is assistant professor of English at Iowa State University.
Reviews for Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature (Native Americans of the Northeast)
Mielke's scholarship is exemplary. She shows broad knowledge of historical and literary scholarship in Native American studies and in American history and literature.... This text could be quite useful in advanced undergraduate seminars in nineteenth-century literature, and it will certainly be a must-have book for scholars in the field. - Renee Bergland, author of The National Uncanny: Indian Ghosts and ... Read more