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Harmon, Lauren Alexandra.

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The spirit of the law: The haunting of U.S. federal Indian law in the contemporary western.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The spirit of the law: The haunting of U.S. federal Indian law in the contemporary western./
Author:	Harmon, Lauren Alexandra.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2017,
Description:	199 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International78-06A(E).
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10245534
ISBN:	9781369560404

The spirit of the law: The haunting of U.S. federal Indian law in the contemporary western.
Harmon, Lauren Alexandra.

The spirit of the law: The haunting of U.S. federal Indian law in the contemporary western. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2017 - 199 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 78-06(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Cornell University, 2017.

The figure of the Native Ghost, as both a character and as a narrative motif, has been a deeply rooted part of the American literary canon since its inception. The critical force of the figure has typically been located within the United States settler colonial psyche, projecting a particular set of uniquely American cultural anxieties about property and conquest, and seeking to quell those anxieties with reminders of the disappearance of Native peoples. This type of analysis, while fruitful for understanding many generative literary works, becomes problematic when it encounters contemporary texts, particularly those by Native authors. In the logic of this analysis, when Native authors write literary ghosts, they are participating in the imaginative disappearance of Native peoples.

ISBN: 9781369560404Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.

The spirit of the law: The haunting of U.S. federal Indian law in the contemporary western.
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