Title Unconventional politics : nineteenth-century women writers and U.S. Indian policy / Janet Dean

Published Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction: aesthetics, politics, and literary convention -- Nameless outrages: the Dakota conflict, rape rhetoric, and Sarah Wakefield's "captivity" narrative -- "She wept alone": the politics and poetics of Lydia Sigourney's Indian laments -- Reading lessons: sentimental critique in S. Alice Callahan's Wynema: a child of the forest -- Talking back: Ora Eddleman's "Indian magazine" and native publicity -- Epilogue: toward a theory of feminist Indigenist reinvention Summary "Throughout the nineteenth century, Native and non-Native women writers protested U.S. government actions that threatened Indigenous people's existence. The conventional genres they sometimes adopted--the sensationalistic captivity narrative, sentimental Indian lament poetry, didactic assimilation fiction, and the mass-circulated commercial magazine--typically had been used to reinforce the oppressive policies of removal, war, and allotment. But in Unconventional Politics Janet Dean explores how four authors, Sarah Wakefield, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, the Muscogee/Creek S. Alice Callahan, and the Cherokee Ora V. Eddleman, converted these frameworks to serve a politics of dissent. Intervening in current debates in feminist and Native American literary criticism, Dean shows how these women advocated for Native Americans by both politicizing conventional literature and employing literary skill to respond to national policy. Dean argues that in protesting U.S. Indian policy through popular genres, Wakefield, Sigourney, Callahan, and Eddleman also critiqued cultural protocols and stretched the contours of accepted modes of feminine discourse. Their acts of improvisation and reinvention tell a new story about the development of American women's writing and political expression"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Reed, Ora V. Eddleman, 1880-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation Callahan, S. Alice, 1868-1894 -- Criticism and interpretation Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Eddleman, Ora V., 1880-1968 -- Criticism and interpretation Callahan, S. Alice, 1868- -- Criticism and interpretation Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 -- Criticism and interpretation Wakefield, Sarah F. -- Criticism and interpretation Callahan, S. Alice, 1868-1894 fast Reed, Ora V. Eddleman, 1880-1968 fast Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard), 1791-1865 fast Wakefield, Sarah F. fast Subject Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century Indians of North America -- Government relations -- History -- 19th century Indians in literature. American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies. American literature -- Indian authors American literature -- Women authors Indians in literature Indians of North America -- Government relations Politics and literature Women and literature United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781613764169 1613764162

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