Inventing the American Primitive: Politics, Gender and the Representation of Native American Literary Traditions, 1789-1936

by Helen Carr

Book Overview

American mainstream culture has always been fascinated with the notion of the primitive, particularly as embodied by Native Americans. In Inventing the American Primitive, Helen Carr illustrates how responses to the existence of Native American traditions have shaped ideas of American identity and American literature.
Inventing the American Primitive examines a body of work, both literary and anthropological, that describes, inscribes, translates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814715494
• ISBN13: 9780814715499
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"