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Cross-cultural hybridity in James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans.

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From: ATQ (The American Transcendental Quarterly)
Date: 20060901
Author:Smith, Lindsey Claire

Scholars of James Fenimore Cooper have generally interpreted The Last of the Mohicans and its American Indian characters as emblematic of the Vanishing American convention in American literature, whereby Natives must be subsumed in order for a young America to fulfill its destiny. In a popular sense, the novel has come to be viewed as an adventure story of our country's beginnings, an American counterpart to Sir Walter Scott's Waverley escapades set against the backdrop of a pristine yet unpredictable wilderness, the inhabitants of which eventually disappear. Typically, approaches ...

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