
A New Continent of Liberty
Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich
Geoff Hamilton(Author)
University of Virginia Press
Published on 30. April 2019
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-8139-4244-5 (ISBN)
Description
The first book to chart autonomy's conceptual growth in Native American literature from the late eighteenth to the early twenty-first century, A New Continent of Liberty examines, against the backdrop of Euro-American literature, how Native American authors have sought to reclaim and redefine distinctive versions of an ideal of self-rule grounded in the natural world. Beginning with the writings of Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by William Apess, Sarah Winnemucca, Zitkala-Sa, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, and Louise Erdrich, Geoff Hamilton sketches a movement of gradual but resolute ascent: from often desperate early efforts, pitted against the historical realities of genocide and cultural annihilation, to preserve any sense of self and community, toward expressions of a resurgent autonomy that affirm new, iIndigenous models of eunomia, a fertile blending of human and natural orders.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Charlottesville
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
515 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8139-4244-5 (9780813942445)
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Geoff Hamilton, who teaches humanities at Medicine Hat College in Alberta, Canada, is the author of The Life and Undeath of Autonomy in American Literature (Virginia).