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« Indigenous camps as a transnational settler-colonial phenomenon: Victoria Grieves-Williams, Victoria Grieves-Williams, in Fernanda Peñaloza, Sarah Walsh (eds), Mapping South-South Connections, Palgrave, 2019, pp 59-79
Women needed (for settler-colonial projects): Bonnie White, The Society for the Oversea Settlement of British Women, 1919-1964, Palgrave, 2019 »

The philosophy of settler colonialism: Michel Feith, ‘Philosophy Embedded in Space: Rethinking the Frontier in Percival Everett’s Western Novels’, African American Review, 52, 1, 2019, pp. 87-100

24Mar19

Abstract: This article places Frederick Jackson Turner’s theory of the frontier into conversation with John Locke’s thinking about individualism and colonial America in order to examine what Percival Everett’s representations of the frontier in his Western novels tell us about familiar claims of manifest destiny and American identity.

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