Ethnocriticism : ethnography, history, literature / Arnold Krupat.
Ethnocriticism : ethnography, history, literature / Arnold Krupat.
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
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N305.8001/1
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English
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273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: Ethnocriticism -- 1. Ethnography and Literature: A History of Their Convergence -- 2. Modernism, Irony, Anthropology: The Work of Franz Boas -- 3. Ethnographic Conjuncturalism: The Work of James Clifford -- 4. Figures and the Law: Rhetorical Readings of Congressional and Cherokee Texts...
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Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992.
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California
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c1992.
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After an innovative rhetorical reading of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, Krupat discusses the counter-discourse with which the Cherokee tried to prevent its passage. He considers the gulf between the idea of "literature" and the Native American practice of oral performance, concluding with a close analysis of representations of the Indian self in...
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Ethnocriticism : ethnography, history, literature / Arnold Krupat.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-266) and index.
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
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c1992.
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N305.8001/1
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0520076664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520074477 (alk. paper)
0520074475 (alk. paper)
9780520076662 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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305.8001
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991018912689702626
