عنوان

Settler common sense :

شابک

081669057X

شابک

081669060X

شابک

9780816690572

شابک

9780816690602

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Settler common sense :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

queerness and everyday colonialism in the American Renaissance /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Mark Rifkin

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xxii, 293 pages ;

ابعاد

22 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-273) and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction -- 1. Ordinary Life and the Ethics of Occupation -- 2. Romancing the State of Nature: Speculation, Regeneration, and the Maine Frontier in House of the Seven Gables -- 3. Loving Oneself Like a Nation: Sovereign Selfhood and the Autoerotics of Wilderness in Walden -- 4. Dreaming of Urban Dispersion: Aristocratic Genealogy and Indian Rurality in Pierre

بدون عنوان

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متن يادداشت

"In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls "settler common sense," taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book invokes white settlers in southern Maine as the basis for its ethics of improvement, eliding the persistent presence of Wabanaki peoples in their homeland. Rifkin suggests that Henry David Thoreau's Walden critiques property ownership as a form of perpetual debt. Thoreau's vision of autoerotic withdrawal into the wilderness, though, depends on recasting spaces from which Native peoples have been dispossessed as places of non-Native regeneration. As against the turn to "nature," Herman Melville's Pierre presents the city as a perversely pleasurable place to escape from inequities of land ownership in the country. Rifkin demonstrates how this account of urban possibility overlooks the fact that the explosive growth of Manhattan in the nineteenth century was possible only because of the extensive and progressive displacement of Iroquois peoples upstate. Rifkin reveals how these texts' queer imaginings rely on treating settler notions of place and personhood as self-evident, erasing the advancing expropriation and occupation of Native lands. Further, he investigates the ways that contemporary queer ethics and politics take such ongoing colonial dynamics as an unexamined framework in developing ideas of freedom and justice."--

موضوع مستند نشده

American literature-- 19th century-- History and criticism

موضوع مستند نشده

Homosexuality in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Indians in literature

موضوع مستند نشده

Queer theory

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Rifkin, Mark,1974-

تاريخ عمليات

20150327093521.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

rda

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y