Conquered Landscape in the American West
The paper traces the history of “conquered landscape” back to the original European colonists and the Puritans. We discuss the contribution of Thomas Jefferson as an architect of Western expansion through the purchase of the Louisiana territory and the mapping of future policy regarding the settling...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press
2011-12-01
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| description | The paper traces the history of “conquered landscape” back to the original European colonists and the Puritans. We discuss the contribution of Thomas Jefferson as an architect of Western expansion through the purchase of the Louisiana territory and the mapping of future policy regarding the settling of Western territory. We cover the major moments in the settling of the West and their historic significance. We discuss Frederick Jackson Turner’s concept of the West as “a succession of frontiers” versus revisionist historian Patricia Nelson Limerick’s concept of conquest and conquered territory. The second part of the paper deals with the Native American view of the land, with reference to Paula Gunn Allen’s ideas and Leslie Marmon Silko’s novels Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Silko juxtaposes two different kinds of space, Native American versus federal space. The Native American and Anglo-American views of nature are contrasted and explained, with the discussion of aspects of native removal, reterritorialization and misrepresentation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a35355779334420db988e08360cdc7ef2022-12-22T00:59:13ZengAlexandru Ioan Cuza University PressLinguaculture2067-96962285-94032011-12-012210.2478/v10318-012-0013-7Conquered Landscape in the American WestIrina Chirica0Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of IasiThe paper traces the history of “conquered landscape” back to the original European colonists and the Puritans. We discuss the contribution of Thomas Jefferson as an architect of Western expansion through the purchase of the Louisiana territory and the mapping of future policy regarding the settling of Western territory. We cover the major moments in the settling of the West and their historic significance. We discuss Frederick Jackson Turner’s concept of the West as “a succession of frontiers” versus revisionist historian Patricia Nelson Limerick’s concept of conquest and conquered territory. The second part of the paper deals with the Native American view of the land, with reference to Paula Gunn Allen’s ideas and Leslie Marmon Silko’s novels Ceremony and Almanac of the Dead. Silko juxtaposes two different kinds of space, Native American versus federal space. The Native American and Anglo-American views of nature are contrasted and explained, with the discussion of aspects of native removal, reterritorialization and misrepresentation.https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/19Western expansionenvironmental despoliationreinscribed bordersreterritorialization |
| spellingShingle | Irina Chirica Conquered Landscape in the American West Linguaculture Western expansion environmental despoliation reinscribed borders reterritorialization |
| title | Conquered Landscape in the American West |
| title_full | Conquered Landscape in the American West |
| title_fullStr | Conquered Landscape in the American West |
| title_full_unstemmed | Conquered Landscape in the American West |
| title_short | Conquered Landscape in the American West |
| title_sort | conquered landscape in the american west |
| topic | Western expansion environmental despoliation reinscribed borders reterritorialization |
| url | https://journal.linguaculture.ro/index.php/home/article/view/19 |
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