The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession: The Marshall Trilogy Cases

ISBN-13: 9781138481862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 242 str.

Pappas, George D.

Opis

This work offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johnson v. M’Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the Marshall Trilogy, have formed the legal basis for the dispossession of indigenous populations throughout the Commonwealth. Exploring the literary genesis of Marshall’s judgments, George Pappas draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, to analyze how these formative U.S. Supreme Court rulings blurred the distinction between literature and law.

Spis treści

Part I Theoretical Foundations & The Marshall Trilogy Cases Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundations Chapter 2. The Marshall Trilogy Cases: An Overview Chapter 3. Colonial Knowledge: A Unity of Discourses Part II Refining the Native American Chapter 4 Theory of Discourse in a Colonial Context: Edward Said and the American Eighteenth Century Literary Archive Chapter 5 The Discourse of the Vanishing Indian in Literature Chapter 6 Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans Chapter 7 The Wilderness in American Art and Literature Part III Resistance to Colonial Discourse Chapter 8. Law and Literature Chapter 9. Cherokee Resistance: Mimicry as Deception

O autorze

Dr. George D. Pappas is currently a practising lawyer in North Carolina, USA.