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Unsettling Thoreau : Native Americans, settler colonialism, and the power of place /

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Henry David Thoreau's widely known interest in Native Americans has been a recurring topic of attention, yet it is also a source of modern debate. John J. Kucich charges into the contradiction of Thoreau, considering how he could demonstrate respect for this group on one hand and ignore their g...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kucich, John J. (John Joseph), 1966- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2024].
Subjects:
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Criticism and interpretation.
Thoreau, Henry David, > 1817-1862 > Knowledge and learning > Indians of North of America.
Indians in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Thoreau's Indian problem
  • Ghosts of Musketaquid : playing Indian, local history, and a week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
  • Savagism and its discontents : the Indian notebooks
  • Becoming native : Walden, "walking," and the poetry of place
  • Indians in Massachusetts : Cape Cod, colonialism, and Wampanoag revitalization
  • Lost in the Maine woods : Henry Thoreau, Joseph Nicolar, and the Penobscot world
  • Succession : wild fruits, the dispersion of seeds, and Thoreau's Indian afterlife.