Sensitive Negotiations: Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry by Nikk

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Examines how Indigenous figures used British Romantic poetry in their interactions with settler governments and publics.

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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.

Author Biography

Nikki Hessell is Associate Professor of English at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is the author of Literary Authors, Parliamentary Reporters: Johnson, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Dickens and Romantic Literature and the Colonised World: Lessons from Indigenous Translations.

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: The Power of (Poetic) Promises1. Truth and Reconciliation: The Case of "the Monster Brandt"2. Romanticism and Removal: Elias Boudinot, Felicia Hemans, and the Cherokee Phoenix3. Digressive Diplomacy: George Copway and Byron's Lines on the Rhine4. "Always Build a Fence around the King's Word": Sol Plaatje and The Deserted Village5. Petitions and Repetitions: R"weti Khere and the Ashes of Byron and MacaulayConclusion: Coming to Terms with Romantic PoetryCodaBibliographyIndex

Review

"Hessell returns us implicitly to the ethical stakes of quotation and models a citational practice that will undoubtedly benefit scholars within and beyond the field of Romanticism." — Eighteenth-Century Fiction"Sensitive Negotiations is essential reading for anyone interested in studying the literary history of Indigenous political activism. Among the most innovative works of Romantic literary criticism to have appeared during the past two decades, it provides remarkable new perspectives on Romanticism's central political, aesthetic, and cultural preoccupations." — Kevin Hutchings, author of Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations

Review Quote

" Sensitive Negotiations is essential reading for anyone interested in studying the literary history of Indigenous political activism. Among the most innovative works of Romantic literary criticism to have appeared during the past two decades, it provides remarkable new perspectives on Romanticism's central political, aesthetic, and cultural preoccupations." -- Kevin Hutchings, author of Transatlantic Upper Canada: Portraits in Literature, Land, and British-Indigenous Relations

Details ISBN1438484763 Pages 270 Publisher State University of New York Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 1438484763 ISBN-13 9781438484761 Format Paperback Publication Date 2022-01-02 DEWEY 821.709145 Series SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Imprint State University of New York Press Place of Publication Albany, NY Country of Publication United States Illustrations Total Illustrations: 0 AU Release Date 2022-01-02 NZ Release Date 2022-01-02 US Release Date 2022-01-02 UK Release Date 2022-01-02 Author Nikki Hessell Subtitle Indigenous Diplomacy and British Romantic Poetry Alternative 9781438484778 Audience General We've got this

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