2. Writing Indians

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
4. 1. The Subject of America: The Outsider Inside 1
5. 2. Writing Indians 25
6. 3. The Irony and Mimicry of William Apess 41
7. 4. Black Hawk and the Moral Force of Transposition 60
8. 5. The Terms of George Copway's Surrender 84
9. 6. John Rollin Ridge and the Law 111
10. 7. Sarah Winnemucca's Mediations: Gender, Race, and Nation 139
11. 8. Personifying America: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip" 164
12. 9. Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms 185
13. Appendix: "The Red Man's Rebuke" 209
14. Notes 221
15. Works Cited 239
16. Index 249