Search results for "Native Americans"

Civilization and sexual abuse: selected Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience

2019

This paper offers a contrastive analysis of Indian captivity narratives and the Native American boarding-school experience. Indian captivity narratives describe the ordeals of white women and men, kidnapped by Indians, who were separated from their families and subsequently lived months or even years with Indian tribes. The Native American boarding-school experience, which began in the late nineteenth century, took thousands of Indian children from their parents for the purpose of “assimilation to civilization” to be facilitated through governmental schools, thereby creating a captivity of a different sort. Through an examination of these two different types of narratives, this paper reveal…

"'unlimn’d they disappear': The Ghostly Presence of Native Americans in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass"

2018

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Puritāņu sievišķības un Indiāņu mežonības atspoguļojums agrīnās ASV nebrīves stāstījumos

2018

Maģistra darbā tiek pētīts Puritāņu sievišķības un Indiāņu ‘mežonības’ atspoguļojums Mērijas Rovlandsones, Hannas Dustonas un Mērijas Džemisones nebrīves stāstījumos. Pētījuma teorētiskajā daļā tiek pētīti avoti par puritānismu, puritāņu reliģiskajiem uzskatiem un attiecībām starp puritāņu kolonistiem un indiāņiem. Pētījumā iekļauta arī teorija par nebrīves stāstījumiem un sieviešu lomu tajos. Darbā tika pielietota diskursa analīze, literārā analīze, vēsturiskā analīze, dzimtes vēsture, sieviešu vēsture un postkoloniālā teorija. Mērijas Rovlandsones nebrīves stāstījums mēģina atveidot tradicionālos puritānisma uzskatus, ka sievietes pildīja tām sabiedrības uzticētās lomas, tas ir, viņas bij…

Identity in Moon Palace by Paul Auster

2021

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“From Savage to Sublime (And Partway Back): Indians and Antiquity in Early Nineteenth-Century American Literature”

2016

This article examines the comparisons made between Indians and Antiquity in early nineteenth-century American literature (notably in the works of Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper); to do so, it begins by reaching back to references in European and American writings of the eighteenth century. One of the main motivations behind the associations between Native Americans and the Ancient World made in the early decades of the nineteenth century was to “elevate” Indians in order to transform them into worthy symbols of the recently established United States. Such associations also rendered them suitable subjects for treatment by authors inspired to a large extent by the Romantic Moveme…

“Allochronic Views of Native Americans; or, Vanished Vanishing Indians in The Last of the Mohicans”

2016

James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans; A Narrative of 1757, first published in 1826, offers an archetypal example, perhaps the archetypal example, of a literary expression of the trope of the Vanishing Indian. This theme is present in many works of nineteenth-century American literature that include Native Americans as their subjects, but Cooper’s romance, whose very title evokes the disappearance of an entire tribe, takes the sad fate of North America’s indigenous peoples as one o...

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Notae ad dissertationem Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's critical confutation of Hugh Grotius treatise which argued that Native Americans came from Norway, Ethiopia and China.

Joannis de Laet Antwerpiani Responsio ad dissertationem secundam Hugonis Grotii De origine Gentium Americanarum

De Laet's response to Hugo Grotius who, resentful about De Laet's confutation on his previous work, had published a second treatise in an attempt to refute De Laet's arguments.