Writing Against Vanishing: Native American Autobiography and the Trope of an Ever-Pending Vanishment

This article aims at exploring the sense of impending death that goaded Native American autobiographers in the nineteenth century; they made “colonization” rhyme with “destruction” rather than “revelation” as the etymology of “apocalypse” would suggest. Ottawa Andrew Blackbird and Omaha Francis La F...

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Published in:	E-REA
Main Author:	Fabrice LE CORGUILLÉ
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2017-12-01
Subjects:	autobiography testimony Native Americans vanishing Indian counter-narrative
Online Access:	https://journals.openedition.org/erea/6033