Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

to

Searching collections:

Temple University Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Add or remove collections

Home Page 1

Reference URL

To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed the entire object, paste this HTML in website

To link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this page, paste this HTML in website

Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Back to top

Powered by CONTENTdm®

Author	Emery, Jacqueline
Title	Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920
Year Degree Awarded	2011
Department	English
Degree	Ph.D.
Abstract	This dissertation seeks to expand our conception of what constitutes Native American letters by examining how the periodical became a prominent form in Native American literary production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its focus on the boarding school, Writing against Erasure provides insight into the context in which students first learned how to make complex and sophisticated choices in print. Within the contested disciplinary space of the boarding school, the periodical press functioned as a site for competing discourses on assimilation. Whereas school authorities used the white-run school newspapers to publicize their programs of cultural erasure, students used the student-run school newspapers to defend and preserve Native American identity and culture in the face of the assimilationist imperatives of the boarding schools and the dominant culture. Writing against Erasure highlights the formative impact of students' experiences with the boarding school press on the periodical practices and rhetorical strategies of two well-known Native American literary figures, Zitkala-Sa and Charles Eastman. By treating the periodical writings of these two prominent boarding school graduates alongside the periodical writings produced by boarding school students while they were still at school, Writing against Erasure provides a literary genealogy that reveals important continuities between these writers' strategic and political uses of the periodical press. Writing against Erasure argues that Native American boarding school students and graduates used the periodical press not to promote the interests of school authorities as some scholars have argued, but rather to preserve their cultural traditions, to speak out on behalf of indigenous interests, and to form a pan-Indian community at the turn of the twentieth century.
Advisor	Orvell, Miles
Committee Members	Lee, Sue-Im Salazar, James B. Powell, Timothy B.
Degree Granting Institution	Temple University
Subject	American Literature American Studies Native American Studies
Publisher	Temple University Libraries
Type	Dissertation
Format	Application/PDF
Number of Pages	218
Rights	The author has granted Temple University a limited, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce his or her dissertation, in whole or in part, in electronic or paper form and to make it available to the general public at no charge. This permission is granted in addition to rights granted to ProQuest. The author retains all other rights.
Description	Temple University--Theses
Digital Collection	Temple University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contact	etd-library@listserv.temple.edu
File Size	1,807 KB

Title	Page 1
Contact	etd-library@listserv.temple.edu

Find results with:

Searching collections:

Home Page 1

Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School Students and the Periodical Press, 1880-1920

Object Description

Description

Writing against Erasure: Native American Boarding School...

	All
	Pages Enter page numbers or page ranges separated by commas. For example: 1,3,5-12