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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot

Through an Indian's Looking-Glass: A Cultural Biography of William Apess, Pequot

Lopenzina, Drew

Paperback

Series: Native Americans of the Northeast

Biographies GeneralReligious BiographiesNative American History

ISBN10: 1625342594
ISBN13: 9781625342591
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: Jan 25 2017
Pages: 310
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

The life of William Apess (1798-1839), a Pequot Indian, Methodist preacher, and widely celebrated writer, provides a lens through which to comprehend the complex dynamics of indigenous survival and resistance in the era of America's early nationhood. Apess's life intersects with multiple aspects of indigenous identity and existence in this period, including indentured servitude, slavery, service in the armed forces, syncretic engagements with Christian spirituality, and Native struggles for political and cultural autonomy. Even more, Apess offers a powerful and provocative voice for the persistence of Native presence in a time and place that was long supposed to have settled its Indian question in favor of extinction.

Through meticulous archival research, close readings of Apess's key works, and informed and imaginative speculation about his largely enigmatic life, Drew Lopenzina provides a vivid portrait of this singular Native American figure. This new biography will sit alongside Apess's own writing as vital reading for those interested in early America and indigeneity.

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