The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh - Couverture souple

Sayre, Gordon M.

 
9780807856321: The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to Tecumseh
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ISBN 10 : 0807856320 ISBN 13 : 9780807856321
Editeur : The University of North Carolina Press, 2005

Synopsis

The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance-Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc-spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian" these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gordon M. Sayre is professor of English at the University of Oregon. He is author of Les Sauvages Américains: Representations of Native Americans in French and English Colonial Literature and editor of American Captivity Narratives.

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Éditeur
The University of North Carolina Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807856320
ISBN 13 
9780807856321
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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Editeur : The University of North Carolina..., 2005
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