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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Monika Barbara Siebert Surprisingly for a novel evidently invested in representations of contemporary Choctaw traditionalism as a viable alternative to settler society, LeAnne Howe's 2001 Shell Shaker gives unrelenting play to the gruesomeness, horror even, of the traditional rituals it depicts...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 643–644.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and histories of his imaginary landscape,
Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Faulkner’s fictional representations
include the premodern tribal past, first contact with European settlers, South-
ern systems of slavery (including native slavery), and the trauma of removal
that Choctaws and Chickasaws...
Journal Article
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 677–685.
Published: 01 December 2004
... in the field of Native American languages such as
684 American Literature
Marcia Haag and Henry Willis, in their Choctaw Language and Cul-
ture/Chahta Anumpa (2001), do an exemplary job of making Choctaw
and its contexts accessible in ways Huck failed to anticipate. The pro-
liferation of Native...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
... English, the missionaries appointed by the “American
Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions” maintained that it would
be easier to teach Choctaw and Cherokee children to read in their
native tongues before attempting English. John Pickering, the philolo-
gist from Boston who became president...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 390–393.
Published: 01 June 2020
... ; paper, $ 34.95 ; e-book, $ 19.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 In 2016, the Isle de Jean Charles, off the Louisiana coast, received the first US climate resettlement grant, and members of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) were...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (2): 429–431.
Published: 01 June 2015
... the premodern tribal past, first contact with European
settlers, Southern systems of slavery (including native slavery), and the
trauma of removal that Choctaws and Chickasaws experienced.
When Native American studies began to achieve recognition in the 1970s,
scholars began to investigate Faulkner’s...
Journal Article
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 663–665.
Published: 01 September 2003
... of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish-Cajun
author Louis Owens. LaLonde grounds his eclectic analysis in an understand-
ing of the power of stories to create resistant communities and cultural iden-
tities. For example, he...
Journal Article
American Literature (2022) 94 (1): 159–179.
Published: 01 March 2022
... hereafter be created, in the Indian Territory shall have exclusive jurisdiction of all controversies growing out of the titles, ownership, occupation, possession, or use of real estate, coal, and asphalt in the territory occupied by the Choctaw and Chickasaw tribes; and of all persons charged with homicide...
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Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 221–224.
Published: 01 March 2015
... with European
settlers, Southern systems of slavery (including native slavery), and the
trauma of removal that Choctaws and Chickasaws experienced.
When Native American studies began to achieve recognition in the 1970s,
scholars began to investigate Faulkner’s fictional constructions of “Indi...
Journal Article
American Literature 11557553.
Published: 09 October 2024
... from ling citizenship applications and claiming a reciprocal social and kinship relation that they honored in their own communities. In the context of the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, historian Barbara Krauthamer describes a similar claiming of citizenship despite the Nation s efforts UNCORRECTED...
Journal Article
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 613–618.
Published: 01 September 2020
...”—“the way in which one can speak or express through a Choctaw worldview”—as a methodology for considering Howe’s work as an exploration of the “Interstate” South. Considering the “braided” relationship of the “Interstate” and Native South, Squint turns to Howe’s writing and biographical information to make...
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American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 89–113.
Published: 01 March 2023
... editions, but Blake’s interventions are complicated by his crossing over into “Indian Nation” (Delany 2017 : 86). To increase the ranks of his secret army, Blake holds all his conspiratorial meetings with the enslaved except for one instance when he convenes with the master, a Choctaw leader named Mr...
Journal Article
American Literature 11557513.
Published: 09 October 2024
... Tribes (the Cherokee, Muscogee [Creek], Seminole, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations) were required to relinquish their civic authority and UNCORRECTED PROOFS 566 American Literature comply with allotment policies. As allotments were handed out, excess land was opened to settlers, leading to a massive...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 445–472.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC), is “sinking” due to sea level rise, shrinking from erosion, and vulnerable to storms; since 1955, the isle has lost 98 percent of its land. Following Neil Smith’s ( 2006 ) famous formulation—“there’s no such thing as a natural disaster...
Journal Article
American Literature (2006) 78 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2006
... of this
experience:
Turned away by rich Choctaw and poor whites, chased by yard
dogs, jeered at by camp prostitutes and their children, they were
nevertheless unprepared for the aggressive discouragement they
received from Negro towns already being built. The headline of a
feature in the Herald...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
...; or, The Huts of America (1859), in which a fugitive
slave takes refuge with a band of Choctaw Indians and is convinced
by their chief to return to his plantation and lead an insurrection; and
Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861), in which
the heroine, Linda Brent, hides...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 190–192.
Published: 01 March 2015
... with its emphasis on the US/Mexico border as a
literary trope and political force.
Cox’s work is notable not only for its focus on an underanalyzed period of
Native literary production but also for its recovery of the popular detective
novels of Choctaw author Todd Downing. These he analyzes...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 192–194.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of
Native literary production but also for its recovery of the popular detective
novels of Choctaw author Todd Downing. These he analyzes alongside lesser-
known writing by prominent Native authors Lynn Riggs and D’Arcy McNickle.
The concluding chapter demonstrates continuities between this earlier era...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 197–199.
Published: 01 March 2015
... of
Native literary production but also for its recovery of the popular detective
novels of Choctaw author Todd Downing. These he analyzes alongside lesser-
known writing by prominent Native authors Lynn Riggs and D’Arcy McNickle.
The concluding chapter demonstrates continuities between this earlier era...
Journal Article
American Literature (2015) 87 (1): 203–205.
Published: 01 March 2015
... with its emphasis on the US/Mexico border as a
literary trope and political force.
Cox’s work is notable not only for its focus on an underanalyzed period of
Native literary production but also for its recovery of the popular detective
novels of Choctaw author Todd Downing. These he analyzes...
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