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Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature

Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature Native American authors in the first half of the nineteenth century—the dawn of the Anthropocene in some accounts—were witness to the rapid expansion of settler-colonialism powered by new ideologies of energy and fueled by fossil capitalism. These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities theories developed by Warren Cariou (Métis) and Bob Johnson, among others, this article will analyze Mary Jemison’s (Seneca) autobiography; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s (Ojibwe) poem, “On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior”; and John Rollin Ridge’s (Cherokee) novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta. These works show how Native American authors defined energy as cyclical and intimate in contrast to the growing settler society’s vision of linear, unending extraction. This article argues that nineteenth-century Native American Anglophone literatures expand the scope of the energy humanities by describing energy intimacy while also extending the histories of Indigenous resistance to settler energy imaginaries. Nineteenth-century Native American literatures can make important contributions to the scope of the energy humanities and need to be integrated into the field to grasp the full scale of current environmental crises. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Humanities Duke University Press

Defining Energy in Nineteenth-Century Native American Literature

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Abstract

Native American authors in the first half of the nineteenth century—the dawn of the Anthropocene in some accounts—were witness to the rapid expansion of settler-colonialism powered by new ideologies of energy and fueled by fossil capitalism. These authors, though, resisted extractive metaphors for energy and fuel, offering more organic and intimate visions of energy instead. Using energy humanities theories developed by Warren Cariou (Métis) and Bob Johnson, among others, this article will analyze Mary Jemison’s (Seneca) autobiography; Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s (Ojibwe) poem, “On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior”; and John Rollin Ridge’s (Cherokee) novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta. These works show how Native American authors defined energy as cyclical and intimate in contrast to the growing settler society’s vision of linear, unending extraction. This article argues that nineteenth-century Native American Anglophone literatures expand the scope of the energy humanities by describing energy intimacy while also extending the histories of Indigenous resistance to settler energy imaginaries. Nineteenth-century Native American literatures can make important contributions to the scope of the energy humanities and need to be integrated into the field to grasp the full scale of current environmental crises.

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Environmental Humanities – Duke University Press

Published: Nov 1, 2021

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    Burnham, Michelle
  • Aboriginal
    Cariou, Warren Szeman, Imre Wenzel, Jennifer Yaeger, Patricia
  • Indigenous Rights and the Undoomed Indian
    Cariou, Warren
  • Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Sentimental Lessons: Native Literary Collaboration and Resistance
    Cavalier, Christine R.
  • The Limit Point of Capitalist Equality: Notes toward an Abolitionist Antiracism
    Chen, Chris
  • On the Importance of a Date, or Decolonizing the Anthropocene
    Davis, Heather Todd, Zoe
  • Ridge’s Joaquin Murieta: Banditry, Counterinsurgency, and Colonial Power after Guadalupe-Hidalgo
    Drysdale, David J.
  • John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism
    Havard, John D.
  • ‘Let Paler Nations Vaunt Themselves’: John Rollin Ridge’s ‘Official Verse’ and Racial Citizenship in Gold Rush California
    Hickey, Alanna
  • Petromyopia: Oil and the Energy Humanities
    Jones, Christopher F.
  • Joaquín Murieta, Cherokee Outlaw-Hero: Yellow Bird’s Vindication of Cherokee Nature
    Jordan, Tracey L.
  • ‘Once Did She Hold the Gorgeous East in Fee’: Byron’s Venice and Oriental Empire
    Kelsall, Malcolm Fulford, Tim Kitson, Peter J.
  • Defining the Anthropocene
    Lewis, Simon L. Maslin, Mark A.
  • Print, Cultural Memory, and John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit
    Merish, Lori
  • A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison: Rhetorical Drag and the Defiance of Hegemonic Cultural Models
    Montón, Elena Ortells
  • Translation and Mediation
    Murray, David Porter, Joy Roemer, Kenneth M.
  • We Planted, Tended, and Harvested Our Corn: Gender, Ethnicity, and Transculturation in ‘A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison.’
    Oakes, Karen
  • ‘For the Wrongs of Our Poor Bleeding Country’: Sensation, Class, and Empire in Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta
    Rifkin, Mark
  • Not for Citation: Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s Synchronic Strategies
    Schneider, Bethany
  • On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior
    Schoolcraft, Jane Johnston Parker, Robert Dale
  • A Landscape of Assimilation and Resistance: The Mount Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School
    Surface-Evans, Sarah L.
  • Conrad’s Carbon Imaginary: Oil, Imperialism, and the Victorian Petro-Archive
    Tondre, Michael
  • Aesthetics of Survivance
    Vizenor, Gerald Vizenor, Gerald
  • ‘With Them Was My Home’: Native American Autobiography and ‘A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison.’
    Walsh, Susan
  • The Anthropocene Is Functionally and Stratigraphically Distinct from the Holocene
    Waters, Colin N. Zalasiewicz, Jan Summerhayes, Colin Baronsky, Anthony D. Poirier, Clément Galuska, Agnieszka Cearreta, Alejandro, et al.
  • Afterword: Improvement and Overburden
    Wenzel, Jennifer
  • Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene
    Whyte, Kyle Powys
  • Culture-Tectonics: California Statehood and John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta
    Winter, Molly Crumpton
  • Prisoners of History: Pocahontas, Mary Jemison, and the Poetics of an American Myth
    Wood, Karenne
  • Captivity and Conversion: William Apess, Mary Jemison, and Narratives of Racial Identity
    Wyss, Hilary E.
  • Literature in the Ages of Wood, Tallow, Coal, Whale Oil, Gasoline, Atomic Power, and Other Energy Sources
    Yaeger, Patricia
  • Perpetual Motion: Energy and American Studies
    Ziser, Michael Zaretsky, Natasha Sze, Julie