Literary Indians Aesthetics and Encounter in by Angela Calcaterra HARDBACK

Literary IndiansAesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920\nAuthor(s): Angela Calcaterra\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press, United States\nImprint: The University of North Carolina Press\nISBN-13: 9781469646930, 978-1469646930\nSynopsis\nAlthough cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practice to American literary production. \n\nCountering the prevailing notion of the \""\""literary Indian\""\"" as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people's pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise way.