Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. The Subject of America: The Outsider Inside
Chapter 2. Writing Indians
Chapter 3. The Irony and Mimicry of William Apess
Chapter 4. Black Hawk and the Moral Force of Transposition
Chapter 5. The Terms of George Copway's Surrender
Chapter 6. John Rollin Ridge and the Law
Chapter 7. Sarah Winnemucca's Mediations: Gender, Race, and Nation
Chapter 8. Personifying America: Apess's "Eulogy on King Philip"
Chapter 9. Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms
Appendix: "The Red Man's Rebuke"
Notes
Works Cited
Index