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Samson Occom or Occum (1723-1792)

Bannet, Eve Tavor. Transatlantic Stories and the History of Reading, 1720-1810 : Migrant Fictions. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Print.

Blodgett, Harold William. Samson Occom. Hanover, N.H.,: Dartmouth college publications, 1935. Print.

Bloom, Harold. Native American Writers. Bloom's Modern Critical Views. New ed. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010. Print.

Bouwman, Heather M. The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other. 1999. Print.

Brooks, Joanna. American Lazarus: The Rise and Fall of African-American and Native American Literatures. Oxford, England : Oxford UP, 2003.

---. "Six Hymns by Samson Occom." Early American Literature 38.1 (2003): 67-87.

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.

Bross, Kristina, and Hilary E. Wyss. Early Native Literacies in New England : A Documentary and Critical Anthology. Native Americans of the Northeast. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008. Print

Brunjes, Ann M. "Timothy Dwight's Travels in New England and New York, Samson Occom's a Short Narrative of My Life, and the Rhetoric of Race." Assimilation and Subversion in Earlier American Literature. Ed. DeRosa, Robin. Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Cambridge Scholars, 2006. 111 pp. Print.

Chamberlain, Ava. "The Execution of Moses Paul: A Story of Crime and Contact in Eighteenth-Century Connecticut." New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 77.3 (2004): 414-50.

Calloway, Colin G. The Indian History of an American Institution : Native Americans and Dartmouth. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press : University Press of New England, 2010. Print.

Chiles, Katy L. "Becoming Colored in Occom and Wheatley's Early America." PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 123 5 (2008): 1398-417, 811-812. Print.

Davis, Thomas J. John Calvin's American Legacy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. Print.

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

Elliott, Michael. "'This Indian Bait': Samson Occom and the Voice of Liminality." Early American Literature 29.3 (1994): 233-53.

Elrod, Eileen Razzari. "'I Did Not Make Myself So ...': Samson Occom and American Religious Autobiography." Christian Encounters with the Other. Eds. John C. Hawley and Erick D. Langer: New York UP, New York, NY Pagination: 135-49, 1998. xiii, 197.

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

Fields, Polly Stevens. "Samson Occom and/in the Missionary's Position: Consideration of a Native American Preacher in 1770's Colonial America." Wordsworth Circle 32.1 (2001): 14-20.

Gianferrari, Maria Christina. "Hybrid Voices/Hybrid Texts: A Study of Syncretism in the Works of Samson Occom, Handsome Lake, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Louise Erdrich." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 60.7 (2000): 2492.

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.

Larre, Lionel. "Samson Occom: A Paradigm of Resistance." Lettres D'amerique(S) (Lettres D'amerique(S)). Ed. Pellerin, Simone. Bordeaux, France: PU de Bordeaux, 2009. 175 pp. Print.

Lopenzina, Drew. "Compromised Currencies: Why Samson Occom Is Not Pictured on the One Hundred Dollar Bill." 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.

Lopenzina, Drew. "'the Whole Wilderness Shall Blossom as the Rose': Samson Occom, Joseph Johnson, and the Question of Native Settlement on Cooper's Frontier." American Quarterly 58 4 (2006): 1119-45. Print.

Love, William De Loss. Samson Occom, and the Christian Indians of New England. Boston, Chicago,: The Pilgrim press, 1899. Print.

Love, William DeLoss. Samson Occom and the Christian Indians of New England. The Iroquois and Their Neighbors. 1st Syracuse University Press ed. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Print.

Martin, Joel W., and Mark A. Nicholas. Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Print.

McCarthy, Keely. "Conversion, Identity, and the Indian Missionary." Early American Literature 36.3 (2001): 353-70.

Nelson, Dana D. "'(I Speak Like a Fool but I Am Constrained)': Samson Occom's Short Narrative and Economies of the Racial Self." Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays. Eds. Helen Jaskoski and A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (Csalc) Number: 102: Cambridge UP, New York, NY Pagination: 42-65, 1996. xv, 238.

---. "Reading the Written Selves of Colonial America: Franklin, Occom, Equiano, and Palou/Serra." Resources for American Literary Study 19.2 (1993): 246-59.

Occom, Samson, and Joanna Brooks. The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan : Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-Century Native America. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Print.

---. A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian, Who Was Executed at New-Haven, on the 2d of September 1772, for the Murder of Mr. Moses Cook, Late of Waterbury, on the 7th of December, 1771. Preached at the Desire of Said Paul. Exeter N.H.: Printed for Josiah Richardson, the Lord's messenger to the people, 1819. Print.

Ottery, Jim. "Samson Occom's Diary and D'arcy Mcnickle's 'Train Time': The Real Imperative of 'Native' Education in American Indian Literature." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 13.4 (2001): 24-50.

Ottery, James R. "'Who Are They and What Do They Have to Do with What I Want to Be?': The Writing of Multicultural Identity and College Success Stories for First-Year Writers." Identity Papers: Literacy and Power in Higher Education. Ed. Williams, Bronwyn T. Logan, UT: Utah State UP, 2006. 212 pp. Print.

Peyer, Bernd. "Samson Occom: Mohegan Missionary and Writer of the Eighteenth Century." American Indian Quarterly 6.3-4 (1982): 208-17.

Peyer, Bernd C. The Tutor'd Mind: Indian Missionary-Writers in Antebellum America. Amherst, MA : U of Massachusetts P, 1997.

Richardson, Leon Burr, Samson Occom, and Nathaniel Whitaker. An Indian Preacher in England; Being Letters and Diaries Relating to the Mission of the Reverend Samson Occom and the Reverend Nathaniel Whitaker. Hanover, N.H.,: Dartmouth college publications, 1933. Print.

Roppolo, Kimberly. "'an Incipient Study of the Indian Half of the Dialogic': Native Rhetorics and Occom's Use of Indirect Discourse." 'Stealing/Steeling the Spirit: American Indian Identities' and 'Smoke Screens/Smoke Signals: Looking through Two Worlds'. Eds. Lucretia Scoufos, Mark Spencer and Chad Litton: Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, OK Pagination: 41-47, 2003. vii, 92.

Rosenberg, Ruth. "Samson Occom." Dictionary of Literary Biography (Dlb). Ed. Roemer, Kenneth M. Detroit, MI: Gale, 1997. xxi, 342 pp. Print.

Round, Phillip H. "From Performance to Print in the Native Northeast." Cultural Narratives: Textuality and Performance in American Culture before 1900. Eds. Gustafson, Sandra M. and Caroline F. Sloat. Notre Dame, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 2010. vi, 393 pp. Print.

Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown. "Introduction: Samson Occom's Sermon Preached by Samson Occom'at the Execution of Moses Paul, an Indian." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 4.2-3 (1992): 75-105.

Silverman, Kenneth. "Four New Letters by Phillis Wheatley." Early American Literature 8 3 (1974): 257-71. Print.

Steele, Ian Kenneth, and Nancy L. Rhoden. English Atlantics Revisited : Essays Honouring Professor Ian K. Steele. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. Print.

Szasz, Margaret. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans : Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Print.Bouwman, Heather M. "The Familiar Foreigner: English Colonists and American Indians Writing Each Other." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 59.8 (1999): 2976.

Wigginton, Caroline. "Extending Root and Branch: Community Regeneration in the Petitions of Samson Occom." Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 20 4 (2008): 24-55. Print.

Last Update: December 27, 2012