<underline><fontfamily><param>Palatino</param>Turning Indian Land into
White Property in Antebellum Frontier Romances
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</fontfamily><fontfamily><param>Palatino</param>This panel examines the
ways antebellum historical romances evacuate Native American land to
make way for and create white property. We welcome papers that address
the question of property through one or more of the following issues:
--the construction of white and Indian masculinities and femininties;
--the relationship between Indian removal policies and frontier
romances;
--the potential relationship between the "Indian question" and debates
over slavery;
--how Native conceptions of communal property and ownership are
accounted for in these texts;
--how writers use bodily property and capital in relation to landed
property;
--the significance of having liminal whites (male or female) who are
identified and associated with Indian identity;
--the use of sentimental strategies in frontier romances.
Email a one-page abstract or completed paper, along with a one-page
C.V., to Susie Castellanos <<Maria_Castellanos@Brown.edu> and Bethany
Schneider <<bss10@cornell.edu> by Monday, March 1st.
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Maria S. Castellanos
Brown University
Box 1852
Providence RI 02912-1852
<<Maria_Castellanos@Brown.edu>
401/331-6795
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