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Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry

Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry

Hessell, Nikki

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Series: SUNY Series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1438484763
ISBN13: 9781438484761
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2022
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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