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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… English Chairperson: David L. Moore Abstract “William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity” In 1829, Apess published his first book A Son of the Forest, a conversion narrative documenting his life. Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister in the early nineteenth century, has …
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William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity
… English Chairperson: David L. Moore Abstract “William Apess: Autobiography and the Conversion of Subjectivity” In 1829, Apess published his first book A Son of the Forest, a conversion narrative documenting his life. Apess, a Pequot Methodist minister in the early nineteenth century, has …
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William Apess, Elias Boudinot, and Samuel Cornish : Native Americans and African-Americans looking for freedom of expression, representation, and rhetorical sovereignty during the age of Jackson
… and form of sovereignty. Pequot writer William Apess, Cherokee editor Elias Boudinot, and African-American editor Samuel Cornish sought and practiced the right to represent themselves and their ethnic groups. This contributed to the political and cultural survival of their ethnic groups. …
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The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other
… American Indian writers such as Samson Occom and William Apess, meanwhile, try to reinterpret and reverse these tropes of familiarity and alienness: white culture acts as the alien culture which the Indian must adapt to or alter; the Indian acts as captive or missionary to this alien culture. Thus …