The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero: Native Resistance and the Literatures of America, from Moctezuma to TecumsehUniv of North Carolina Press, 2006 M05 18 - 368 pages The leaders of anticolonial wars of resistance--Metacom, Pontiac, Tecumseh, and Cuauhtemoc--spread fear across the frontiers of North America. Yet once defeated, these men became iconic martyrs for postcolonial national identity in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. By the early 1800s a craze arose for Indian tragedy on the U.S. stage, such as John Augustus Stone's Metamora, and for Indian biographies as national historiography, such as the writings of Benjamin Drake, Francis Parkman, and William Apess. With chapters on seven major resistance struggles, including the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and the Natchez Massacre of 1729, The Indian Chief as Tragic Hero offers an analysis of not only the tragedies and epics written about these leaders, but also their own speeches and strategies, as recorded in archival sources and narratives by adversaries including Hernan Cortes, Antoine-Simon Le Page du Pratz, Joseph Doddridge, Robert Rogers, and William Henry Harrison. Sayre concludes that these tragedies and epics about Native resistance laid the foundation for revolutionary culture and historiography in the three modern nations of North America, and that, at odds with the trope of the complaisant "vanishing Indian," these leaders presented colonizers with a cathartic reproof of past injustices. |
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... Rogers 152 5 Logan 162 Frontier Vengeance, Frontier Justice 166 Logan's Lament as Gothic and Sentimental Literature 177 Mourning and History in Pennsylvania 182 Logan, the Gothic Indian 191 6 The Natchez 203 Le Page and Dumont ...
... Rogers 152 5 Logan 162 Frontier Vengeance, Frontier Justice 166 Logan's Lament as Gothic and Sentimental Literature 177 Mourning and History in Pennsylvania 182 Logan, the Gothic Indian 191 6 The Natchez 203 Le Page and Dumont ...
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... Rogers, and Robert Navarre, whom we will meet in the chapters that follow. The European colonial invasion of America, followed by the expansionist wars of western settlement, led to the killing of millions of Native Americans ...
... Rogers, and Robert Navarre, whom we will meet in the chapters that follow. The European colonial invasion of America, followed by the expansionist wars of western settlement, led to the killing of millions of Native Americans ...
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... Rogers's play about Pontiac's rebellion, Ponteach, begins with a satire of the greed and racism of the British colonial o≈cers for whom Rogers fought. If the play was performed in the 1760s (and it is not certain whether or not it was) ...
... Rogers's play about Pontiac's rebellion, Ponteach, begins with a satire of the greed and racism of the British colonial o≈cers for whom Rogers fought. If the play was performed in the 1760s (and it is not certain whether or not it was) ...
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... Rogers's Ponteach, on the other hand, is clearly the rightful possessor of his soil'' (240). Rogers provides a more dignified treatment of his hero not only, as Slotkin has suggested, because of the fashion for neoclassical stoicism in ...
... Rogers's Ponteach, on the other hand, is clearly the rightful possessor of his soil'' (240). Rogers provides a more dignified treatment of his hero not only, as Slotkin has suggested, because of the fashion for neoclassical stoicism in ...
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... Rogers may have based it on tales he heard from tribal storytellers. Such omens and the heathen priests who interpret them have been a common ingredient of hubris since the dawn of tragedy. Aeschylus's The Persians is in fact the ...
... Rogers may have based it on tales he heard from tribal storytellers. Such omens and the heathen priests who interpret them have been a common ingredient of hubris since the dawn of tragedy. Aeschylus's The Persians is in fact the ...
Contents
2 Moctezuma | |
3 Metacom | |
4 Pontiac | |
5 Logan | |
6 The Natchez | |
7 The Pueblo Revolt | |
8 Tecumseh | |
Notes | |
Works Cited | |
Index | |
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