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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... Genre 13 Indian Resistance and Imperial Epic 27 2 Moctezuma 42 Cortés and Moctezuma as Mimetic Rivals 46 Omens of Conquest and the Myth of Quetzalcoatl 55 Xicoténcatl 71 3 Metacom 80 Rebels and Sovereigns of Seventeenth-Century New ...
... Genre 13 Indian Resistance and Imperial Epic 27 2 Moctezuma 42 Cortés and Moctezuma as Mimetic Rivals 46 Omens of Conquest and the Myth of Quetzalcoatl 55 Xicoténcatl 71 3 Metacom 80 Rebels and Sovereigns of Seventeenth-Century New ...
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... genre, John Augustus Stone's dramatization of Metacom's uprising, Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags. Priscilla Sears counts forty Indian dramas written between 1820 and 1860, of which only seventeen are extant. There may have ...
... genre, John Augustus Stone's dramatization of Metacom's uprising, Metamora; or, The Last of the Wampanoags. Priscilla Sears counts forty Indian dramas written between 1820 and 1860, of which only seventeen are extant. There may have ...
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... genre endured into the twentieth century with works like the anonymous Boy's Book of Indian Battles and Adventures (1861) and Edwin Sabin's The Boy's Book of Indian Warriors (1918). A third multivolume work of Indian biography also ...
... genre endured into the twentieth century with works like the anonymous Boy's Book of Indian Battles and Adventures (1861) and Edwin Sabin's The Boy's Book of Indian Warriors (1918). A third multivolume work of Indian biography also ...
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... Genre In his 1955 history of the theater in the United States, America Takes the Stage, Richard Moody noted that ''there were practically no native dramas until after the Revolution'' (25) but that even in the absence of original ...
... Genre In his 1955 history of the theater in the United States, America Takes the Stage, Richard Moody noted that ''there were practically no native dramas until after the Revolution'' (25) but that even in the absence of original ...
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... genre among Anglo-American audiences, but it also was just one of many performance genres among the predominantly oral cultures of Native America.∞∞ Another was ''chanson de mort,'' or ''death song,'' which a man sang to his tribe to ...
... genre among Anglo-American audiences, but it also was just one of many performance genres among the predominantly oral cultures of Native America.∞∞ Another was ''chanson de mort,'' or ''death song,'' which a man sang to his tribe to ...
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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