A new continent of liberty : Eunomia in Native American literature from Occom to Erdrich

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Label

A new continent of liberty : Eunomia in Native American literature from Occom to Erdrich

Title remainder

Eunomia in Native American literature from Occom to Erdrich

Statement of responsibility

Geoff Hamilton

Creator

• Hamilton, Geoff, 1972-

Author

• Hamilton, Geoff, 1972-

Subject

• American literature -- Indian authors
• American literature -- Indian authors | History and criticism
• Autonomy in literature
• Autonomy in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• American literature
• Natural law in literature
• Social structure in literature
• Social structure in literature
• Natural law in literature
• American literature -- History and criticism

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"Beginning with transcriptions of speeches by Pontiac, Red Jacket, and Tecumseh, and letters penned by the Reverend Samson Occom, and extending through a range of fiction and nonfiction works by Black Hawk, Mourning Dove, N. Scott Momaday, Louise Erdrich, and others, A New Continent of Liberty looks closely at how these authors have sought to reclaim and redefine versions of autonomy against representative Euro-American authors spanning from Thomas Jefferson to Don DeLillo. In his previous book, Hamilton charted how a vital blending of natural and human law in which the self was subordinated to both the divine and a larger human community gradually declined (from the late nineteenth century onward) into an eventual hyperautonomy in which an effectively deified self stood in sterile isolation from the rest of the world. In this new book, he demonstrates how Native American literature recovers a version of what Euro-American literature gradually lost"--

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

810.9/897

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.I52

LC item number

H35 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography