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Settler guilt as a narrative device: Rebecca Weaver-Hightower, “Do We Reverse the Medal?”: Settler Guilt, the Indian Speech, and the Untold Side of the Story’, Western American Literature, 52, 1, 2017, pp. 25-53

17Jul17

Excerpt: The issue becomes, then, not just guilt for the past crimes against the Indians but the continued guilt produced by not representing the Indians’ perspective on events and the reasons for their violence. […] this statement […] sums up the deep ambivalence of his book, which both shows settlers as heroes battling Indians and, in its inaugural story, questions settler morality. And by showing a narrator aware of this guilt, the story asks readers likewise to become aware and to admit their own participation.


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