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Last of the red hot Mohicans: miscegenation in the popular American romance.(Popular Literature and Film)

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From: MELUS
Date: 19970622
Author:Wardrop, Stephanie

Contemporary Indian romances are written to fulfill women's desires for freedom and self-determination and to idealize Native Americans. The romance in these books usually portrays a European American character involved with a full- or half-blood Native American, and is usually resolved with the woman happily entering tribal life. These fantasy fulfillments give women sexual, social and political power.

In his 1824 "Essay on Romance," Sir Walter Scott states that "romance turns upon marvelous or uncommon events," while the novel "accommodated to the ordinary train of human events and ...

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