- Title
- Englishman, Your Color is Deceitful: Unsettling the North Woods in Janet Lewis s The Invasion
- Author/Creator
- Adam Spry
- Publication Details
- Our War Paint is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism, pp.65-99
- Annotation
- Compares Hemingway s treatment of the Anishinaabe people in Indian Camp with former Oak Park classmate Janet Lewis s depiction in her 1932 novel, The Invasion, arguing that while Hemingway ultimately erases the presence of the indigenous peoples of northern Michigan, Lewis calls for the recognition of Anishinaabe nationhood. Spry contends that Hemingway s portrayal of the noble, yet primitive, Anishinaabeg obscures the brutal impact of Euro-American domination of Anishinaabe territory that resulted in indigenous dispossession and impoverishment. Spry concludes that devoid of its context of colonization, the story requires the reader only to commiserate with the disappearance of the Natives, thus rendering reading an act of public consumption.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132067003691
Book chapter
Englishman, Your Color is Deceitful: Unsettling the North Woods in Janet Lewis s The Invasion
Our War Paint is Writers’ Ink: Anishinaabe Literary Transnationalism, pp.65-99
2018
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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