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In __Settler Common Sense__, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed. In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne’s __House of the Seven Gables__, Rifkin shows how the novel draws on Lockean theory in support of small-scale landholding and alternative practices of homemaking. The book invokes white settlers in southern Maine as the basis for its ethics of improvement, eliding the persistent presence of Wabanaki peoples in their homeland. Rifkin suggests that Henry David Thoreau’s __Walden__ critiques property ownership as a form of perpetual debt. Thoreau’s vision of autoerotic withdrawal into the wilderness, though, depends on recasting spaces from which Native peoples have been dispossessed as places of non-Native regeneration. As against the turn to “nature,” Herman Melville’s __Pierre__ presents the city as a perversely pleasurable place to escape from inequities of land ownership in the coun

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Author

Mark Rifkin

Publisher

University of Minnesota Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816690602

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Social Science, Social Sciences