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Cooper's 'The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish.' (James Fenimore Cooper)
From: The Explicator
Date: 19960101
Author:Lambert, Stephen
James Fenimore Cooper's 'The Wept on Wish-Ton-Wish' has been criticized as justifying miscegenation taboo, most especially with the way the offspring was summarily forgotten and unaccounted for in the end. This critical stance, however, cannot be supported by the narrative. The deaths of the lovers do not stem from their interracial marriage. Conanchet is killed by the Pequots and the Mohicans for political reasons while Ruth dies from despair.
Recently, critics have responded disparagingly to Cooper's depiction of miscegenation in The Wept (1829), because they believe that the portrayal ...
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