Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

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Settler Common Sense This page intentionally left blank Settler Common Sense QW Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance Mark Rifkin University of Minnesota Press minneapolis • london Portions of chapter 1 were previously published as “Settler Common Sense,” Settler Colonial Studies 3, no. 4 (2013): 322–40. Portions of chapters 1 and 3 were previously published as “Settler States of Feeling: National Belonging and Erasure of Native American Presence,” in Blackwell Companion to American Literary Studies, ed. Robert Levine and Caroline Levander (New York: Wiley–Blackwell, 2011), 342–55. Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401–2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Rifkin, Mark, author. Settler Common Sense : Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance / Mark Rifkin. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-9057-2 (hc : acid-free paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-9060-2 (pb : acid-free paper) 1. Indians in literature. 2. Queer theory. 3. Homosexuality in literature. I. Title. PN56.3.I6R54 2014 809´.933520397—dc23 2013038694 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Rich This page intentionally left blank ...