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<p>In <i>Seeing Red</i>, 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. <i>Seeing Red</i> argues that one of the most pervasive and intriguing of these is sentimentality.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>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 rela

Author

Cari M. Carpenter

Publisher

Columbus: Ohio State University Press

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814210796

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, History