A New Continent of Liberty
Eunomia in Native American Literature From Occom to Erdrich
University of Virginia Press · Print & ebook · April 1, 2019
Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-?a, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature.
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- Who it’s for
- Traces changing visions of Native autonomy from Samson Occom to Louise Erdrich.
- Genres
- Indigenous Lit Crit, Nature in Literature, Native American Studies
- Published
- University of Virginia Press, April 1, 2019
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Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-?a, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent in Native American literature. The history of this rich tradition of storytellers begins with desperate early efforts pitted against the historical realities of genocide and cultural annihilation.
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It moves to attempts to preserve any sense of self and community, and finally toward expressions of a resurgent autonomy that affirm new, indigenous models of what Hamilton labels as eunomia, a fertile blending of human and natural orders. The first book to chart autonomy?s conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American Literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine distinctive versions of an ideal of self-rule grounded in the natural world.
Eunomia and Self-Rule
Traces changing visions of Native autonomy from Samson Occom to Louise Erdrich.
Come here for
- Native writers from Samson Occom through Louise Erdrich
- Self-rule grounded in the natural world
Expect
- A literary history spanning the late eighteenth to early twenty-first century
- Native American literature considered against Euro-American literature
Where it sits
| Indigenous Lit Crit | 98% |
|---|---|
| Native American Studies | 28% |
| Nature in Literature | 24% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- American Lit Crit
- Authors
- Geoff Hamilton
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Published
- April 1, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- American Lit Crit