Sovereign Selves

Sovereign Selves

Author:
David Carlson
Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness".
104.00 zł
Publishing date:
2005
Delivery:
2 days
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Number of pages:
232
Publication form:
paperback / softback
Language:
English
Edition:
ISBN:
9780252072666
Categories:
Indigenous peoples
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Explores how American Indian autobiographers' approaches to writing about their own lives have been impacted by American legal systems from the Revolutionary War until the 1920s. This book traces the way that their sustained engagement with colonial legal institutions gradually enabled them to produce a new rhetoric of "Indianness".