Savage Songs & Wild Romances: Settler Poetry and the Indigene, 1830-1880
Savage Songs & Wild Romances considers the various types of poetry - from short songs and laments to lengthy ethnographic epics - which nineteenth-century settlers wrote about indigenous peoples as they moved into new territories in North America, South Africa, and Australasia. Drawing on a variety of texts (some virtually unknown), the author demonstrates the range and depth of this verse, suggesting that it exhibited far more interest in, and sympathy for, indigenous peoples than has generally been acknowledged. In so doing, he challenges both the traditional view of this poetry as derivative and eccentric, and more recent postcolonial…
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- ISBN: 978-90-420-3399-3
- EAN: 9789042033993
- Produktnummer: 12256107
- Verlag: Brill Academic Pub
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 196 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.6 cm 503 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 138
- Gewicht: 503
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John O'Leary specializes in the study of settler writing about indigenous peoples. His articles and reviews have appeared in American, British, Australian, and New Zealand scholarly journals; Savage Songs & Wild Romances is his first book. He lives in Wellington, New Zealand.
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