27 septembre 2017
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Robert Strong, « 5 – The Uncooperative Primary Source », Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa | University of Ottawa Press, ID : 10670/1.h1jhi6
As the first novel written by a Native American woman, Cogewea: The Half-Blood holds a position of historical and symbolic importance for American literature. Prepared in manuscript form as early as 1914, but not published until 1927, Cogewea is a fascinating read that blends tropes from romance, Western, autoethnography, captivity narrative, and realism. In its confusions, earnestness, and collaborative minglings, Mourning Dove’s novel is uniquely North American; it could not have been writt...