18 septembre 2018
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Cécile Roudeau, « Chapitre II. A Name for a Monument: Epitaphs of Native America in James Fenimore Cooper and Lydia Howard Sigourney », Presses Sorbonne Nouvelle, ID : 10670/1.sjysg9
“I know of no such thing existing as an Indian monument”, Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Notes on the State of Virginia, “for I would not honour with that name arrow points, stone hatchets, stone pipes, and half-shapen images.” (Jefferson: 223) For all his morbid fascination with Indian skeletons and Indian mounds, which he would “open and examine thoroughly”, “cut[ting] though the body of the barrow”, Jefferson deemed Indian sepulchres unworthy of being called a “monument”. The secrets to the...