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Redefining American Literary History
ISBN: 9780873521888 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of literature in ways that have been slighted in the making of previous literary histories of the United States."" The volume suggests methods for redefining the American literary canon.
Presents seventeen essays and six bibliographies linked, in the words of the introduction, by ""a commitment to deal with history and attributes of li...
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290,87 zł |
Life, Letters and Speeches
ISBN: 9780803264632 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during the mid-nineteenth century. His colorful, kaleidoscopic life took him from the tiny Ojibwe village of his youth to the halls of state legislatures throughout the eastern United States and eventually overseas. Copway converted to Methodism as a teenager and traveled throughout the Midwest as a missionary, becoming a forceful and energetic spokesperson for temperance and the rights and sovereignty of Indians, lecturing to large crowds in the...
George Copway (Kahgegagahbowh, 1818-69), an Ojibwe writer and lecturer, rose to prominence in American literary, political, and social circles during ...
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Old Indian Days
ISBN: 9780803267183 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles A. Eastman, a mixed-blood Sioux who earned renown as the author of nearly a dozen books, was on home ground in writing about the traditional life of his people, their customs, warm family relations, reverence for animals, and struggle for survival. Originally published in 1907, Old Indian Days alludes to historical figures like Little Crow and Tamahay and to an event that Eastman experienced as a small boy, the 1862 Sioux Uprising in Minnesota....
The stories in Old Indian Days focus mainly on Sioux bands of the Upper Midwest in prereservation times, when contact with whites was minimal. Charles...
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83,16 zł |