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02820aam a2200409 i 4500 001 507A56B0875711E9A56C064497128E48 003 SILO 005 20190605010028 008 181102t20192019vau b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2018047473 020 $a 0813942446 020 $a 9780813942445 020 $a 0813942454 020 $a 9780813942452 035 $a (OCoLC)1057297244 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCF $d LGG $d YDX $d IWA $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS153 I52 H35 2019 082 00 $a 810.9/897 $2 23 100 1 $a Hamilton, Geoff, $d 1972- $e author. 245 12 $a A new continent of liberty : $b Eunomia in Native American literature from Occom to Erdrich / $c Geoff Hamilton. 263 $a 1905 264 1 $a Charlottesville : $b University of Virginia Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 207 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Eunomia regained and lost: Thomas Jefferson and Samson Occom -- Prospective domination, retrospective liberation: Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Apess -- Lighting out, circling in: Mark Twain and Sarah Winnemucca -- The tent and the thipi I: Ernest Hemingway and Zitkala-Sa -- The tent and the thipi II: Joseph Heller and N. Scott Momaday -- Eunomia lost and regained: Don Delillo, Louise Erdrich, and Gerald Vizenor. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American literature $x History and criticism. $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Autonomy in literature. 650 0 $a Natural law in literature. 650 0 $a Social structure in literature. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217020805.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190605012913.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=507A56B0875711E9A56C064497128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search