The Book That Started the Civil War

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Abraham Lincoln 

A work shouldn’t be considered worthy of canonization in American Literature because of its ambiguity or complexity, but for the magnitude of impact that it made on America as a whole.

Some literature is canonized not because of its symbolism, elegance or style, but because of its sheer impact on a society.

arguably more important than them to the American story.

Yes, all that self-important pandering could be reduced to seven crude words- sorry Emerson.

homoerotic freestyle (“Song of Myself”).

JUST KIDDING.

Seriously, Madison, cut your losses and stay in Canada

selfishness

none

abolitionist narrative.

dramatic irony

a ride down confusion lane, shall we?

(in class reading) Article Three: Happening Yesterday, Happened Tomorrow URL

All the story does is reiterate the societal bounds that women and minority groups have been trying to break.

I think the best and most female empowering part of the entire courtship between Winkfield and Princess Unca is when she forgoes her entire belief system and religion to conform to Winkfield’s with about the same amount of resistance that her sister had when she decided to murder the both of them. Or how about when Winkfield “persuaded his wife to conform to European dress”

It doesn’t even pass the bechdel test!

This over-romanticized tale of star-crossed lovers from opposite sides of the world could not reek more of predictability and cliche.

I know we all love Pocahontas, but let’s imagine authentic Princess Unca barbie dolls

Nor did it matter that her captors did what many U.S. citizens proudly claim they would do should an invasion happen today

misery and heartache

overdose of sorrow, disillusionment and hypocrisy to the unsuspecting reader.

“Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord” (Exodus 14.13).

One hour I have been in health, and wealthy, wanting nothing. But the next hour in sickness and wounds, and death, having nothing but sorrow and affliction.

Oh! the wonderful power of God that mine eyes have seen

My sister’s son was redeemed for four pounds,

The twenty pounds, the price of my redemption,

how to admiration did the Lord preserve them for His holy ends, and the destruction of many still amongst the English! s

God seemed to leave his People to themselves, and order all things for His own holy ends. Shall there be evil in the City and the Lord hath not done it?

I would take leave to mention a few remarkable passages of providence

God did not leave me to have my impatience work towards Himself, as if His ways were unrighteous. But I knew that He laid upon me less than I deserved.

but I found no comfort here neither

But the Lord upheld my Spirit, under this discouragement;

I went with a good load at my back (for they when they went, though but a little way, would carry all their trumpery with them).

and never let her see it afterward.

surely there are many who may be better employed than to lie sucking a stinking tobacco-pipe.

Psalm 137.1

God

“your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”

your master

Psalm 38.5-6 “My wounds stink and are corrupt, I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly, I go mourning all the day long.”

I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight; which lay so close unto my spirit, that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever. Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me, and upheld me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.

But the Lord renewed my strength still, and carried me along, that I might see more of His power; yea, so much that I could never have thought of, had I not experienced it.

(except my life)

All was gone, my husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay; and to add to my grief, the Indians told me they would kill him as he came homeward)

a lively resemblance of hell

black creatures

It seems imperative that scholars continue to question what truly characterizes American literature within and beyond national boundaries.

whittled early American literature

important works of American literature

revisited. 

Who determines what counts as American literature?

American literature and American history?

white gull

thunder rolled heavily and the lightning had split a great oak near the wigwam from the top to the base

she cut the vine and let her drop down, down, down, not stopping to see what became of her.

they hoped that he would win a nobler name some day,

ordinary human,

tribal members could not even speak grammatically in their own "tongues"

He is not the product of his background

and confirm to the white reader that contact with Euro-Americans was the most significant event in the forty-thousand-year history of Native people on this continent-indeed, their citizens seem unable to think or talk of anything else.

"I'll take you across one time, two at most," or "I'm at your disposal for the next fifteen minutes, no more." But he gave a basically open-ended agreement-made a contract-and hence the porcupine woman was per- fectly within her rights in both demanding that he return three times and in quilling him to death when he reneged.

t does not mean that Tanaina-speaking people literally believe that beavers and porcupines talk to each other, nor does it suggest that the anthropomorphic quality of the protagonists is more than a stylistic convention.

When she had caught her breath, she turned on the beaver and quilled him to death.

almost 85% of the aggregate Native American population during the contact period

f) these all-the-same people must of course be INDIANS! T

b) none of them were Euro- peans, then therefore c) they must all be the same.

was

was

English literature is expected to be in English, and to be therefore accessi- ble first and foremost to English-speaking clients.

On the other hand, there is no such thing as "Native American litera- ture," though it may yet, someday, come into being.

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