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050 00 $aPS173.I6$bC37 1996
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100 1 $aCarr, Helen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90008013
245 10 $aInventing the American primitive :$bpolitics, gender, and the representation of Native American literary traditions, 1789-1936 /$cHelen Carr.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York University Press,$c1996.
300 $a286 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-277) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tThe American Indian and the New Republic --$g2.$tThe Beginnings of Romantic Nationalism --$g3.$tThe Myth of Hiawatha --$g4.$tReading the Savage Mind --$g5.$tIn Other Words.
520 $aAmerican '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.
520 8 $aInventing the American Primitive examines a body of work, both literary and anthropological, that describes, inscribes, translates and transforms Native American myths and poetry. Drawing on post-colonial and feminist theory, as well as ethnography's recent textual turn, Carr reveals the conflicts and ambivalence in these texts. Through their writings, the writers and anthropologists studied were attempting to preserve a culture which their country, with their help or connivance, sought to destroy.
520 8 $aThe contradictions and tensions of this position run throughout their work. Although there is no simple narrative of progress in this story as it moves from the eighteenth-century primitivism to tweentieth-century modernism, the book shows the process by which the richness and complexity of Native American traditions came to be acknowledged.
520 8 $a. Inventing the American Primitive offers a radical new reading of American literary history, as well as fresh insights into the powerful pull of primitivism in United States culture, and into the interactions of gender and race ideologies.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85004351
650 0 $aIndians in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065082
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xAppreciation$zUnited States.
650 0 $aLiterature and anthropology$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007417
650 0 $aPolitics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xCivilization$xIndian influences.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139962
650 0 $aIndians of North America$xHistoriography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85065287
650 0 $aEthnic relations in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94004077
650 0 $aPrimitivism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106703
650 0 $aSex role in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120668
852 00 $bglx$hPS173.I6$iC37 1996