Seeing Red: Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians

by Cari M. Carpenter

Book Overview

In Seeing Red, Cari M. Carpenter examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson, and Sarah Winnemucca. In articulating a legitimate anger in the late nineteenth century, the first published indigenous women writers were met not only with stereotypes of "savage" rage but with social proscriptions against female anger. While the loss of land, life, and cultural traditions is central...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814210791
• ISBN13: 9780814210796
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.2"