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03706aam a2200469 i 4500 001 779B1B88B85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161202010137 008 160608s2016 maua b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2016012906 020 $a 1625342039 020 $a 9781625342034 020 $a 1625342020 020 $a 9781625342027 035 $a (OCoLC)930997598 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d GZM $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS152 D43 2016 100 1 $a Dean, Janet, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a Unconventional politics : $b nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy / $c Janet Dean. 246 30 $a Nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy 264 1 $a Amherst : $b University of Massachusetts Press, $c [2016] 300 $a xii, 255 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened indigenous people's existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted--the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction, and the mass-circulated commercial magazine--typically had been used to reinforce the oppressive policies of removal, war, and allotment. But in Unconventional Politics Janet Dean explores how four authors, Sarah Wakefield, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the Muscogee/Creek S. Alice Callahan, and the Cherokee Ora V. Eddleman, converted these frameworks to serve a politics of dissent. Intervening in current debates in feminist and Native American literary criticism, Dean shows how these women advocated for Native Americans by both politicizing conventional literature and employing literary skill to respond to national policy. Dean argues that in protesting U.S. Indian policy through popular genres, Wakefield, Sigourney, Callahan, and Eddleman also critiqued cultural protocols and stretched the contours of accepted modes of feminine discourse. Their acts of improvisation and reinvention tell a new story about the development of American women's writing and political expression"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention -- Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative -- "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments -- Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest -- Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity -- Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist indigenist reinvention. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 600 10 $a Wakefield, Sarah F. $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Sigourney, L. H. $q (Lydia Howard), $d 1791-1865 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Callahan, S. Alice, $d 1868- $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 10 $a Eddleman, Ora V., $d 1880-1968 $x Criticism and interpretation. 650 0 $a Indians in literature. 650 0 $a Indians of North America $x History $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 650 0 $a Women and literature $z United States $x History $y 19th century. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017021058.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20170503023627.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=779B1B88B85D11E6BDBAC4DDDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search