Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

by Mark Rifkin

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081669060X
• ISBN13: 9780816690602
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.4"