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The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession

The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession

Author: George Pappas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138188723

Published In: July 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781138481862

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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, Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823), Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) and Worcester v. Georgia (1832), collectively known as the Marshall Trilogy, have formed the legal basis for the dispossession of indigenous populations throughout the Commonwealth.

The Trilogy cases are usually approached as 'pure' legal judgments. This book maintains, however, that it was the literary and public discourses from the early sixteenth through to the early nineteenth centuries that established a discursive tradition which, in part, transformed the American Indians from owners to 'mere occupants' of their land. Exploring the literary genesis of Marshall's judgments, George Pappas draws on the work of Michel Foucault, Edward Said and Homi Bhabha, to analyze how these formative U.S. Supreme Court rulings blurred the distinction between literature and law.

Part I Theoretical Foundations & The Marshall Trilogy Cases

Chapter 1. Theoretical Foundations

Chapter 2. The Marshall Trilogy Cases: An Overview

Chapter 3. Colonial Knowledge: A Unity of Discourses

Part II Refining the Native American

Chapter 4 Theory of Discourse in a Colonial Context: Edward Said and the American Eighteenth Century Literary Archive

Chapter 5 The Discourse of the Vanishing Indian in Literature

Chapter 6 Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans

Chapter 7 The Wilderness in American Art and Literature

Part III Resistance to Colonial Discourse

Chapter 8. Law and Literature

Chapter 9. Cherokee Resistance: Mimicry as Deception