Captive Minds

New Worlds and Old Metaphors

Authors

  • Laura Virginia Castor UiT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2153

Keywords:

Cultural studies, American frontier, National identities, Native Americans, Collective memory, Nineteenth century American history

Abstract

The following essay discusses the politics of naming Native Americans at the end of the nineteenth century. At the time of the Wounded Knee massacre and the official "close" of the American geographical frontier, American mainstream identity had lost its earlier clarity. The attention to historical contextualization in particular suggests some of the ways in which the process of naming relates to the larger contested practice of shaping American national and cultural identities. 

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Published

1999-01-01

How to Cite

Castor, Laura Virginia. 1999. “Captive Minds: New Worlds and Old Metaphors”. Nordlit, no. 5 (January):229–242. https://doi.org/10.7557/13.2153.

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