Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.
Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims.
In Sensitive Negotiations, Nikki Hessell uses examples from North America, Africa, and the Pacific to show how these Indigenous figures quoted lines from famous poets like Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans to build sympathy and community with their audience. Hessell makes new connections by setting aside European-derived genre barriers to bring literary studies to bear on the study of diplomacy and scholarship from diplomatic history and Indigenous studies to bear on literary criticism.
By connecting British Romantic poetry with Indigenous diplomatic texts, artefacts, and rituals, Hessell reimagines poetry as diplomatic and diplomacy as poetic.
| ISBN: | 9781438484761 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2022 |
| Author: | Nikki Hessell |
| Publisher: | SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 270 pages |
| Series: | SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century |
| Genres: |
Literature: history and criticism General and world history |
Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Indigenous peoples in North America and the Pacific engaged with the latest and most fashionable British Romantic poetry as part of transcontinental and transoceanic cross-cultural negotiations about sovereignty, treaty rights, and land claims. In Sensitive Negotiations, Nikki Hessell uses examples from North America, Africa, and the Pacific to show how these Indigenous figures quoted lines from famous poets like Lord Byron and Felicia Hemans to build sympathy and community with their audience.
Sensitive Negotiations features in the following genres: Literature: history and criticism, General and world history
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Sensitive Negotiations was written by Nikki Hessell and published by SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Sensitive Negotiations has 270 pages
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