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Savage Songs & Wild Romances
Settler Poetry and the Indigene, 1830-1880
John O?Leary
Rodopi, Amsterdam/New York, NY 2011. XXVIII, 196 pp. (Cross/Cultures 138)
ISBN: 978-90-420-3399-3 Bound
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Savage Songs & Wild Romances considers the various types of poetry ?
from short songs and laments to lengthy ethnographic epics ? which
nineteenth-century settlers wrote about indigenous peoples as they
moved into new territories in North America, South Africa, and
Australasia.
Drawing on a variety of texts (some virtually unknown), the author
demonstrates the range and depth of this verse, suggesting that it
exhibited far more interest in, and sympathy for, indigenous peoples
than has generally been acknowledged. In so doing, he challenges both
the traditional view of this poetry as derivative and eccentric, and
more recent postcolonial condemnations of it as racist and imperialist.
Instead, he offers a new, more positive reading of this verse, whose
openness towards the presence of the indigenous Other he sees as an
early expression of the tolerance and cultural relativity
characteristic of modern Western society.
Writers treated include George Copway, Alfred Domett, Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow, George McCrae, Thomas Pringle, George Rusden, Lydia
Sigourney, and Alfred Street.
John O?Leary specializes in the study of settler writing about
indigenous peoples. His articles and reviews have appeared in
American, British, Australian, and New Zealand scholarly journals;
Savage Songs & Wild Romances is his first book. He lives in
Wellington, New Zealand.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Introduction
Texts in Context: Nineteenth-Century Settler Culture
?Bold, unfettered rhapsodies?: Nineteenth-Century Versifications of
Indigenous Orature
?We owe them all that we possess?: ?Savage? Songs and Laments
?Unlocking the fountains of the heart?: Settler Verse and the Politics
of Sympathy
Indigenous Romeos & Juliets: Romantic Verse Melodramas
?In their strange customs versed?: Ethnographic Verse Epics
Conclusion
Appendix
Works Cited
Index
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