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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 6218...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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...