Savage songs & wild romances : settler poetry and the indigene, 1830-1880 / / John O'Leary.
Savage Songs andamp; 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 va...
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Superior document: | Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 138 |
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Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Cross/Cultures
138. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Texts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture
- “Bold, unfettered rhapsodies”: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of Indigenous Orature
- “We owe them all that we possess”: ‘Savage’ Songs and Laments
- “Unlocking the fountains of the heart”: Settler Verse and the Politics of Sympathy
- Indigenous Romeos and Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas
- “In their strange customs versed”: Ethnographic Verse Epics
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Works Cited
- Index.