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Strategies of Discourse: Native American Women Characters in Jackson's "Romona," Callahan's "Wynema," and Mourning Dove's "Cogewea"
dc.contributor.author | Knittel, Janna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-01-26T16:16:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-01-26T16:16:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-09-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Indigenous Nations Journal, Volume 3, Number 2 (Fall, 2002), pp. 53-69 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5783 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article treats three novels that present Native American women title characters: Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, published in 1884; S. Alice Callahan's Wynema, a Childofthe Forest (1891); and Mourning Dove's Cogewea, the Half Blood (1927). Jackson is a White writer best known for her activism on behalf of Native peoples; nevertheless, she forges an identity for her lead character that is stereotypical and unrealistic as Ramona learns of her Indian heritage and suddenly becomes Indian in her values and speech. Callahan, a Muscogee Creek writer, creates a character who, however in tune with Muscogee ways in her youth, gradually transforms into a replica of her white, middle-class teacher. Both of these novels present characters who shift between two discreet ethnic identities. In contrast, Mourning Dove, an Okanogan writer, creates a character of both white and Indian heritage who refuses to compromise either identity and who becomes a multi-facted model of mixed blood subjectivity. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, University of Kansas: http://www.indigenous.ku.edu | |
dc.rights | Copyright (c) Indigenous Nations Journal. For rights questions please contact the Global Indigenous Nations Studies Program, 1410 Jayhawk Blvd, 6 Lippincott Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045 | |
dc.title | Strategies of Discourse: Native American Women Characters in Jackson's "Romona," Callahan's "Wynema," and Mourning Dove's "Cogewea" | |
dc.type | Article | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |