1st Edition
Anglo-American Women Writers and Representations of Indianness, 1629-1824
By Cathy Rex
Copyright 2015
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
206 Pages
by
Routledge
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Examining the appropriations and revisions of Indian identity first carried out by Anglo-American engravers and later by early Anglo-American women writers, Cathy Rex shows the ways in which iconic images of Native figures inform not only an emerging colonial/early republican American identity but also the authorial identity of white women writers. Women such as Mary Rowlandson, Ann Eliza... Read more
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Biography
Cathy Rex is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA.
'In Anglo-American Women Writers and Representations of Indianness, 1629-1824, Cathy Rex compellingly explores how women writers from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth century exploit contradictions in European and Euro-American treatment and representation of Native Americans in order to critique the treatment of women and develop their own agency. Rex’s extended attention to images, material culture, and neglected historical figures provides more finely delineated contexts for her analyses of well-known print narratives by Anglo-American women, yielding both a richer sense of their literary and intellectual sophistication and a more clear-eyed understanding of the ways they were enmeshed in the often exploitative and racist activities of their day.' Tamara Harvey, George Mason University, USA
