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Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling

Robbins, Sarah Ruffing

The journal of the gilded age and progressive era, 2024-01, Vol.23 (1), p.26-48 [Periódico revisado por pares]

New York, USA: Cambridge University Press

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  • Título:
    Elaine Goodale Eastman’s Yellow Star as Counter-Narrative for American Indian History-Telling
  • Autor: Robbins, Sarah Ruffing
  • Assuntos: 19th century ; 20th century ; Boarding schools ; Children & youth ; Culture ; Families & family life ; Genre ; Girls ; Literacy ; Native culture ; Native North Americans ; Novels ; Reading ; Teaching
  • É parte de: The journal of the gilded age and progressive era, 2024-01, Vol.23 (1), p.26-48
  • Descrição: In 1911, Elaine Goodale Eastman, longtime editor of writing by her husband, Indigenous writer Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa), published Yellow Star, a narrative for white family audiences. Both the Eastmans’ already-troubled marriage and their parenting of mixed-race children illuminate the text, as does their history of linked authorial experiences. Anticipating twenty-first-century battles over competing historical narratives about Indigenous peoples in school curricula and public discourse, Yellow Star’s depiction of history-in-the-making underscores intersections between the domestic and the public, as well as between communal lived experience and larger social issues. The text simultaneously claims a potential role for young people’s literature in the cultural construction of historical understanding. Eastman’s main character, Stella/Yellow Star, arrives in a fictional New England village as an orphan of the Wounded Knee Massacre. Determined to continue valuing her Indigenous community, Stella models both a particular brand of assimilation and resistance to its would-be totalizing power. Before returning west to teach children of her tribe, she also articulates an alternative historical voice. Yellow Star draws on Eastman’s background as a white woman involved in assimilationist education. Progressive in her commitment to on-reservation learning rather than boarding schools, Goodale Eastman was nonetheless implicated in white culture’s racial hierarchies.
  • Editor: New York, USA: Cambridge University Press
  • Idioma: Inglês
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