Highway robbery: "Indian Removal," the Mexican-American War, and American identity in 'The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta.'

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John Rollin Ridge's 1854 novel, 'The Life and Adventure of Joaquin Murieta,' is a popular adventure story of frontier life organized around the myth of progressive individualism. Using established cultural norms, Ridge succeeded in incorporating conflicting social experiences into the effects of US imperialism. The narrative enables Ridge to resolve his conflicting and traumatic experiences caused by the Gold Rush in California and the US conquest of the state during the Mexican-American War.

United States history, Imperialism in literature, Imperialism, American literature, The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta (Book), Mexican American literature, Ridge, John Rollin

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Subaltern consciousness and the historiography of the Indian Revolution of 1857

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Colonialist and bourgeois-nationalist elitism has dominated the historiography of Indian nationalism over a long period. The 'politics of the people' which existed alongside the elite politics of the colonial period was thus excluded or downplayed from these elitist historiography. To correct this biased point of view, a movement to write the historiography of Indian nationalism from the perspective of the subaltern classes. The implications of this movement are discussed.

Analysis, History, India, Indian history, Historiography, Nationalism

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Wavering identity: a Priandellean reading of Saadallah Wannus's 'The King Is the King.'

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Saadallah Wannus's play 'The King Is the King' is an allegorical portrayal of a ruler's brutality. A hen-pecked husband is tricked into becoming a king for one night, then is able to become the permanent ruler while taking on the former king's tyrannical nature. Wannus's technique is to combine the Pirandellean view that reality is mutable with the Brechtian belief that reality is capable of being understood.

Influence, Syria, Kings and rulers, Kings, Literature, Pirandello, Luigi, Wannus, Saadallah

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