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Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan's Fiction of the Philippines
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American Literature (2000) 72 (4): 843–866.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Joel Slotkin Duke University Press 2000 Joel Igorots and Indians: Racial Hierarchies and
Slotkin Conceptions of the Savage in Carlos Bulosan’s
Fiction of the Philippines
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Charles Brockden Brown's Biloquial Nation: National Culture and White Settler Colonialism in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 459–496.
Published: 01 September 2001
... published
novel, Wieland; or, the Transformation: An American Tale (1798), pro-
viding the story of Carwin’s life before he appears as a crucial charac-
ter in Wieland. Since the scene in the rocky passage contains the only
appearance of ‘‘a Mohock savage’’ in either text, the figure appears...
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Bear, Outlaw, and Storyteller: American Frontier Mythology and the Ethnic Subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday
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American Literature (2001) 73 (3): 599–631.
Published: 01 September 2001
...
Indian ethnicity.
In frontier mythology, two figures stand out: the White adventurer
and the Indian savage. Both are central to Momaday’s construction
Ethnicity and Frontier Mythology in Momaday 601
of his past. ‘‘The savage a colonial invention to signify the oppo-
site...
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Tarzan's White Flights: Terrorism and Fantasy before and after the Airplane
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American Literature (2011) 83 (2): 305–329.
Published: 01 June 2011
... in Africa, in other words, but they do not happen
in the midwest. Following her idyll in the jungle with a wild and savage
man, Jane returns to civilization to accept the marriage proposal of a
more conventional suitor, declining to trade the known quantity of an
English lord for the fantasy...
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Whence Come You, Queequeg?
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American Literature (2005) 77 (2): 227–257.
Published: 01 June 2005
... tatooed [sic] that scarcely
any part of its original colour remained visible Although he was as
a rule ‘‘very gentle and tractable he occasionally displayed ‘‘the sud-
den irritability of the savage when one of the sailors on the Urania
intentionally insulted him, ‘‘he rushed upon the man, seized him...
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Repugnant Aboriginality: LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker and Indigenous Representation in the Age of Multiculturalism
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American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
Published: 01 March 2011
...-eighteenth century, amid intertribal conflicts precipi-
tated by engagement with the French and the English rather than in
some premodern past. So we tend to see Shakbatina’s unjust death
as an anachronistic remnant of a primitive ritual, a fitting reminder of
the savage ways of precontact...
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“Then Began He to Rant and Threaten”: Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 287–313.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Bauer, who argues that
such representations in Rowlandson’s narrative, as publicized by Increase
Mather, were ‘‘intended to counter’’ the claims of imperialist historians
in England that American colonists had degenerated to savages them-
selves and thus failed ‘‘to actualize...
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The Enclosure of America: Civilization and Confinement in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
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American Literature (2003) 75 (2): 275–303.
Published: 01 June 2003
... an overwhelming vastness, erce ‘‘savage
and ‘‘uninterrupted’’ (OP, 10); in the process of settlement and culti-
vation, this vastness is organized into a ‘‘checker-board, marked off in
squares of wheat and corn’’ (OP, 51...
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Turning from the National to the Multilingual
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American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 677–685.
Published: 01 December 2004
... to that col-
lection, ‘‘Savage Law: The Plot against American Indians in Johnson
and Graham’s Lessee v. M’Intosh and The Pioneers was a valuable
and relatively early academic entrant in the body of scholarship that
has continued to proliferate on the relation of the histories of Native
Americans...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (4): 647–675.
Published: 01 December 2008
... gentle bosoms bore,
In each rude age—on ev’ry barbarous shore!
Doom’d the mean vassals of unfeeling lords,
By Western Savages, and Tartar hords!
Through Asian climes, see custom reason braves,
And marks the fairest of their sex for slaves. (118)
Not only does the prologue establish...
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Shadows of Mashantucket: William Apess and the Representation of Pequot Place
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American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 691–714.
Published: 01 December 2012
....” Noting that at the time he experienced this terror he perceived
himself as “a cast-off member of the tribe,” Apess presents the racial
ized understanding of Native people and Native place (the woods as a
site of murderous, savage chaos) as a function of a temporary break in
tribal relations...
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What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip
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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
Published: 01 December 2010
... to the
processes of history keeping. Colonial representations posited indige-
nous life as savage, in irrevocable opposition to Western notions of
civilization and spirituality, and constructed a simulated Native figure
that acquired historical precedence over the real lives and concerns of
676...
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Edgar Huntly and the Regulation of the Senses
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American Literature (2013) 85 (3): 419–445.
Published: 01 September 2013
... Revolution against Patriarchal Authority, 1750-1800 . New York : Cambridge Univ. Press . Foster Hannah Webster . ( 1797 ) 1986 . The Coquette . Edited by Davidson Cathy N. . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Gardner Jared . 1994 . “ Alien Nation: Edgar Huntly’s Savage Awakening...
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Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 645–680.
Published: 01 December 2015
... – 17 . Harkin Michael . 2004 . Reassessing Revitalization Movements . Lincoln : Univ. of Nebraska Press . Harvey Sean . 2010 . “‘Must Not Their Languages Be Savage and Barbarous Like Them?’ Philology, Indian Removal, and Race Science.” Journal of the Early Republic 30...
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Nameless Outrages: Narrative Authority, Rape Rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 93–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
...,
and they often characterized their reports from Minnesota as testi-
mony that the court of public opinion refused to hear. ‘‘People can-
not and will not believe it possible that any set of savages committed
the outrages we say they did on the people of a civilized state com-
plained a lecturer who traveled...
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How the Irish Became Japanese: Winnifred Eaton's Racial Reconstructions in a Transnational Context
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 29–56.
Published: 01 March 2007
... audiences would have expected from an Irish
maid. She alone approaches Japan with the assumption that it is a
“haythen land of savages” ( JB, 68), and when homesick she wanders
the streets in search of “the soight of the face of a foine cop” ( JB, 63),
humorously assuming that policemen...
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The Epistemology of the Ursuline Convent in New Orleans
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American Literature 11792395.
Published: 07 March 2025
... 65). When their ship became trapped in a sandbank in the gulf on what Hachard refers to as the island called White she notes the danger of disembarking because this island was inhabited by savages who, [the of cers] said, were very cruel. Not only did they eat white people, but they made them...
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War on Dirt: Aesthetics, Empire, and Infrastructure in the Low Nineteenth Century
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American Literature (2021) 93 (3): 361–390.
Published: 01 September 2021
... by a few thousand savages to our extensive Republic, studded with cities, towns, and prosperous farms embellished with all the improvements which art can devise or industry execute, occupied by more than 12,000,000 happy people, and filled with all the blessings of liberty, civilization and religion...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (1): 1–27.
Published: 01 March 2007
... language, could
only utter some savage gibberish between Arabic and English.37
Comparing the black slave’s position not with the Indian captivity
of Puritan settlers but with the African captivity of white American
citizens, Garrison places Douglass’s narrative within the historical...
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American Imperialism UnManifest: Emerson's “Inquest” and Cultural Regeneration
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American Literature (2001) 73 (1): 47–83.
Published: 01 March 2001
...’’ as he urges Americans to venture alone into ‘‘un-
handselled savage nature’’ to seek ‘‘periods of solitude, inquest, and
self-recovery 7 In this context, inquest is an inward search for what
is already there—a tautological process of ‘‘self-recovery’’ (my em-
phasis). For Emerson, a successful...
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