A new continent of liberty : Eunomia in Native American literature from Occom to Erdrich /

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 cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hamilton, Geoff, 1972- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Subjects:	American literature > History and criticism. American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism. Autonomy in literature. Natural law in literature. Social structure in literature.

Table of Contents:

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.