Seeing Red : Anger, Sentimentality, and American Indians
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0814256198
ISBN-13
9780814256190
Publisher
Ohio State University Press
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Ohio State University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 9th, 2020
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
296 grams
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15.30 x 22.90 x 1.60 cms
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Literature: history & criticism
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In Seeing Red, Cari M. Carpenter examines anger in the poetry and prose of three early American Indian writers: S. Alice Callahan, Pauline Johnson, and Sarah Winnemucca. In articulating a legitimate anger in the late nineteenth century, the first published indigenous women writers were met not only with stereotypes of "savage" rage but with social proscriptions against female anger. While the loss of land, life, and cultural traditions is central to the Native American literature of the period, this dispossession is only one side of the story. Its counterpart, indigenous claims to that which is threatened, is just as essential to these narratives. The first published American Indian women writers used a variety of tactics to protest such dispossession. Seeing Red argues that one of the most pervasive and intriguing of these is sentimentality.
Carpenter argues that while anger is a neglected element of a broad range of sentimental texts, it should be recognized as a particularly salient subject in early literature written by Native American women. To date, most literary scholars-whether they understand sentimentality in terms of sympathetic relations or of manipulative influence-have viewed anger as an obstacle to the genre. Placing anger and sentimentality in opposition, however, neglects their complex and often intimate relationship. This case study of three Native American women writers is not meant to fall easily into either the "pro" or "anti" sentimentality camp, but to acknowledge sentimentality as a fraught, yet potentially useful, mode for articulating indigenous women''s anger.
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