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Selected Bibliography on William Apess

Apess, William. Eulogy of King Philip : As Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston. 2nd ed. Boston: The Author, 1837.

---. Eulogy on King Philip : As Pronounced at the Odeon, in Federal Street, Boston. 2d ed. Boston: The author, 1837.

---. Experience of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe. microform. Printed for the publisher, Boston, 1837.

---. Experience of Five Christian Indians of the Pequod Tribe. 2d ed. Boston,: Printed for the publisher, 1837.

Apess, William, and Barry O'Connell. On Our Own Ground : The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot. Native Americans of the Northeast. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992.

---. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997.

Arnold, Laura K. "Crossing Cultures : Algonquian Indians and the Invention of New England." 1995.

Batstone, David B. Liberation Theologies, Postmodernity, and the Americas. London andNew York: Routledge, 1997.

Bayers, Peter L. "William Apess's Manhood and Native Resistance in Jacksonian America." MELUS: The Journal of the Society for the Study of the Multi-Ethnic Literature of the United States 31 1 (2006): 123-46. Print.

Bellin, Joshua David. "Red Routes: William Apess and Nativist Prophecy." Literature in the Early American Republic: Annual Studies on Cooper and His Contemporaries 2 (2010): xii, 45-80. Print.

Benes, Peter, Jane Montague Benes, and Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife. Algonkians of New England: Past and Present. Boston: Boston University, 1993.

Bergland, Renée L. The National Uncanny : Indian Ghosts and American Subjects. Reencounters with Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Americas. Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College : University Press of New England, 2000.

Bizzell, Patricia. "The 4th of July and the 22nd of December: The Function of Cultural Archives in Persuasion, as Shown by Frederick Douglass and William Apess." College Composition and Communication 48.1 (1997): 44-60.

Bizzell, Patricia. "(Native) American Jeremiad: The 'Mixedblood' Rhetoric of William Apess." Pittsburgh Series in Composition, Literacy, and Culture (Psclc). Ed. Stromberg, Ernest. Pittsburgh, PA: U of Pittsburgh P, 2006. ix, 286 pp. Print.

Bloom, Harold. Native American Writers. Modern Critical Views. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1998.

Brooks, Lisa. The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast. Indigenous Americas (Indigenous Americas). Minneapolis, MN: U of Minnesota P, 2008. Print.

Calloway, Colin G. After King Philip's War : Presence and Persistence in Indian New England. Reencounters with Colonialism--New Perspectives on the Americas. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1997.

Carlson, David J. Sovereign Selves : American Indian Autobiography and the Law. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.

Cole, Daniel. "Writing Removal and Resistance: Native American Rhetoric in the Composition Classroom." College Composition and Communication 63 1 (2011): 122-44. Print.

Daniels, Anita Lee. The Circumscribing Coyote: Native American Use of Signifying to Cast Their Message in Palatable Tropes. 2007. Print.

Donaldson, Laura. "Making a Joyful Noise: William Apess and the Search for Postcolonial Method(Ism)." Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies. Eds. Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts. New Brunswick, NJ:Rutgers UP, 2003.29-44.

Donaldson, Laura E. "Son of the Forest, Child of God: William Apess and the Scene of Postcolonial Nativity." Postcolonial America. Ed. C. Richard King. Urbana:U of Illinois P, 2000. 201-22.

Doolen, Andy. Fugitive Empire: Locating Early American Imperialism. Minneapolis, MN : U of Minnesota P, 2005.

Elrod, Eileen Razzari. Piety and Dissent: Race, Gender, and Biblical Rhetoric in Early American Autobiography. Amherst, MA: U of Massachusetts P, 2008. Print.

Fulford, Tim. Romantic Indians : Native Americans, British Literature, and Transatlantic Culture, 1756-1830. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Gaul, Theresa Strouth. "William Apess (1798-1839)." Writers of the American Renaissance: An a-to-Z Guide. Ed. Denise D. Knight: Greenwood, Westport, CT Pagination: 15-18, 2003. xiii, 458.

Gustafson, Sandra. "Nations of Israelites: Prophecy and Cultural Autonomy in the Writings of William Apess." Religion and Literature 26.1 (1994): 31-53.

Haynes, Carolyn. "'a Mark for Them All To...Hiss at': The Formation of Methodist and Pequot Identity in the Conversion Narrative of William Apess." Early American Literature 31.1 (1996): 25-44.

Haynes, Carolyn A. Divine Destiny : Gender and Race in Nineteenth-Century Protestantism. Jackson, Miss.: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

Henderson, Desiree. Grief and Genre in American Literature, 1790-1870. Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2011. Print.

Jaskoski, Helen. Early Native American Writing : New Critical Essays. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture ; [102]. Cambridge England ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

King, C. Richard. Postcolonial America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.

Konkle, Maureen. Writing Indian Nations: Native Intellectuals and the Politics of Historiography, 1827-1863. Chapel Hill, NC : U of North Carolina P, 2004.

Krupat, Arnold. All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2009. Print.

Krupat, Arnold. "William Apess: Storier of Survivance." Survivance: Narratives of Native Presence. Ed. Vizenor, Gerald. Lincoln, NE: U of Nebraska P, 2008. 385 pp. Print.

Kucich, John J. "William Apess's Nullifications: Sovereignty, Identity and the Mashpee Revolt." Sovereignty, Separatism, and Survivance: Ideological Encounters in the Literature of Native North America. Ed. Carson, Benjamin D. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2009. xii, 173 pp. Print.

Kucich, John J. "Sons of the Forest: Environment and Transculturation in Jonathan Edwards, Samson Occom and William Apess." Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature. Ed. DeRosa, Robin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2006. 111 pp. Print.

Lopenzina, Drew. "What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving Beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip." American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 82 4 (2010): 673-99. Print.

Lopenzina, Drew. "Shadow Casting: William Apess, Survivance, and the Problem of Historical Recovery." Gerald Vizenor: Texts and Contexts. Eds. Madsen, Deborah L. and A. Robert Lee. Albuquerque, NM: U of New Mexico P, 2010. viii, 316 pp. Print.

Mielke, Laura L. "'Native to the Question': William Apess, Black Hawk, and the Sentimental Context of Early Native American Autobiography." American Indian Quarterly 26.2 (2002): 246-.

Miller, Mark J. "'Mouth for God': Temperate Labor, Race, and Methodist Reform in William Apess's a Son of the Forest." Journal of the Early Republic 30 2 (2010): 225-51. Print.

Mirakhor, Leah. "The Ethics of Imagination : The Writer Bears Witness; a Synchronic Vision of Responsibility, Inheritance, and Love; a Call & Response: James Baldwin, Jaques Derrida, Adrienne Rich, William Apess, Robert Warrior, Gholamhoseyn Sa'edi, Marjane Satrapi." 2006.

Mott, Wesley T. The American Renaissance in New England. Fourth Series. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 243. Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.

O'Connell, Barry. On Our Own Ground: The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot. Amherst : U of Massachusetts P, 1992.

---. A Son of the Forest and Other Writings by William Apess, a Pequot. Amherst, MA : U of Massachusetts P, 1997.

---. "William Apess and the Survival of the Pequot People." Algonkians of New England: Past and Present. Eds. Peter Benes, Jane Montague Benes and Neal Salisbury. Annual Proceedings of the Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife: Boston UP, Boston, MA Pagination: 89-100, 1993. 156.

O'Connell, Barry, Patrick M. Leehey, and William Apess. Barry O'connell, Editor, "On Our Own Ground". videorecording. C-SPAN Archives, West Lafayette, IN, 2000.

Roemer, Kenneth M. Native American Writers of the United States. Dictionary of Literary Biography ; V. 175. Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.

Sayre, Gordon. "Defying Assimilation, Confounding Authenticity: The Case of William Apess." A/B: Auto/Biography Studies 11.1 (1996): 1-.

Schueller, Malini Johar, and Edward Watts. Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

Stromberg, Ernest. American Indian Rhetorics of Survivance : Word Medicine, Word Magic. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Trodd, Zoe. "Hybrid Constructions: Native Autobiography and the Open Curves of Cultural Hybridity." Textxet: Studies in Comparative Literature (Textxet). Eds. Kuortti, Joel and Jopi Nyman. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Rodopi, 2007. x, 330 pp. Print.

Vogel, Todd. Rewriting White : Race, Class, and Cultural Capital in Nineteenth-Century America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2004.

Walker, Cheryl. Indian Nation : Native American Literature and Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms. New Americanists. Durham N.C.: Duke University Press, 1997.

Warrior, Robert Allen. The People and the Word : Reading Native Nonfiction. Indigenous Americas. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.

Wolfe, Eric A. "Mourning, Melancholia, and Rhetorical Sovereignty in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 20 4 (2008): 1-23. Print.

Zenisek, Jakub. "'Scriptor Politicus or Scriptor Poeticus?': Charles Johnson's Ventriloquist Rendering of Phillis Wheatley." Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature and Culture 21 41 (2011): 71-91. Print.


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