« 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
Most settlers would not dream of doing what they dream of doing: Ho’esta Mo’e’hahne, ‘Animating the Indigenous, Colonial Affects, and “Going Native” in the City: Kent Mackenzie’s The Exiles’, Western American Literature, 52, 1, 2017, pp. 75-94 »

The animality of settler colonialism: Alex Calder, ‘Beyond Possession: Animals and Gifts in Willa Cather’s Settler Colonial Fictions’, Western American Literature, 52, 1, 2017, pp. 55-74

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Excerpt: Sensing the deficiency, writers and artists born into a region made prosperous through settlement would seek a more authentic relation to place. Some were apt to find it in a return to primary dramas of discovery and settlement, revisiting them, as it were, in a manner that could be at once critical and compensatory, as well as productive of deeper affinities and identities.


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