AMERICAN LITERATURE OF THE 19TH CENTURY (Winter 2022-2023) (ΛΕ118)
Ενότητες
Week 2 – Native Americans: Conquest, Removal & the Myth of the Noble-Savage
Primary Texts:
George Washington Parke Custis – Pocahontas, or The Settlers of Virginia (1830) (play)
Sarah Winnemucca – from Life Among the Piutes (1883) (Chapter 8) (memoir)
Zitkala-Ša – from The School Days of an Indian Girl (1900) (Chapter 2) (autobiography)
Secondary Reading:
William Apess – “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man” (1833)