The literary and legal genealogy of Native American dispossession : the Marshall Trilogy cases / George D. Pappas.
Publisher's description: The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession offers a unique interpretation of how literary and public discourses influenced three U.S. Supreme Court Rulings written by Chief Justice John Marshall with respect to Native Americans. These cases, Johns...
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Abington, Oxon, UK ; New York :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Series: | Indigenous peoples and the law.
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Table of Contents:
- Theoretical framework
- The Marshall Trilogy cases: an overview
- Colonial knowledge: a unity of discourses
- Theory of discourse in a colonial context: Edward Said and the American eighteenth-century literary archive
- The discourse of the vanishing Indian in literature
- Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans
- The wilderness in American art and literature
- Law and literature
- Cherokee resistance: mimicry as deception.