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17Jun11
Though passionate, Rana is idealistic, not angry. No hectoring ideologue, he is, rather, a true believer in the promise of American freedom. That might make him naïve, but if nothing else he seems to understand what worried Whitman rather better than either of these interlocutors.
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- Locke him up! David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, Felix Waldmann, ‘Locke and Settler Colonialism’, in David Armitage, Teresa M. Bejan, Felix Waldmann (eds), The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives, Oxford University Press, 2026
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- Settler mush: Edith Snook, ‘”The Surest Plan”: Recipes, Joel Barlow’s “The Hasty-Pudding” (1796), and Settler Memory in the British Atlantic World’, Early American Literature, 61, 2, 2026, pp. 323-350
- The imprinting of a settler domination: Shelby Johnson, ‘Decolonial Methods and Early Indigenous Archives’, Early American Literature, 61, 2, 2026, pp. 389-406
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- Anne’s settler colonialism: Donny Syofyan, ‘From “Street Arab” to Scholar: Negotiating the Status of the Orphan in Late Victorian Canadian Literature’, Krinok, 10, 1, 2026, pp. 26-35
- Internal and settler colonialisms: Upasana Bibha, Agustin Laó-Montes, ‘The Multiple Lives of Internal Colonialism’, Sociological Forum, 2026
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- The settler’s hill: Maya Charlton, “On This Very Hill”: Narratives of Conquest in Willa Cather’s A Lost Lady, PhD dissertation, Leigh University, 2026
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