01 Jul EARLY AMERICAN COLONIZATION AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
Topic: Early American Colonization and indigenous peoples
Topics for Paper 1
For this paper, you will choose 2-3 readings from the first half of this course and use them to establish and support a 4-5
page argumentative essay that responds to one of the following topics. Should you have a particular topic in mind other than
those listed below, please email me or come by my office hours to have it approved. Some questions that you may want to
address, or use to think about your argument, are listed underneath the topics:
1) Writing “the Indian”
How do the authors construct Native Americans as a racially, socially, and culturally distinctive group?
How does this construction serve to justify particular forms of treatment of the Native Americans?
How do Native Americans self-representations undermine or respond to the ways in which early explorers represent them?
2) Savagery & Civilization
What defines savagery in the Americas?
How do the authors usages of the term vary?
How can civilization enter the Americas?
3) Public & Private lives
How do these authors balance private and public concerns within the text?
On what basis do the authors argue that the lives of colonists should be regulated?
What kinds of authority to the writers see as extending into colonists lives?
4) Religious Foundations
How do the authors see their position in the Americas as being motivated by religion?
How do the authors mediate religious difference?
What role does religion play in formulating the authors construction of himself as a colonial subject, as an “American” or
as an “American writer”?
5) Women in the Early Americas
What roles to the authors see as appropriate to women in the colonies?
In what ways do the authors recognize transgression from these roles?
In what ways are female authors self-representations different from those of men?
6) Colonial Expansion
In what ways do the authors see themselves as being representatives of their mother countries?
What roles do the authors imagine for themselves in expanding Colonial holdings?
How do they characterize their relationships with other Europeans in the new world?
The main challenge of a paper like this is to make an argumentative claim about one or more works of literature and then back
it up with nuanced close readings. Remember that only a sufficiently unobvious claim will allow you to do nuanced close
reading! Your task in this paper is not to summarize or compare two texts, but rather to use the texts to trace a pattern of
authorship and identity. You will need to frame your discussion in terms of a particular argument that you are prepared to
prove using the texts as evidence. Each paragraph of your paper should be organized around a piece or several pieces of
textual evidence that you quote and analyze at length. In other words, in each paragraph you should employ close reading in
order to further your thesis. You should assume your reader has read the work(s) you are writing on and that you are
providing him or her with interpretations of passages whose true meaning might have been overlooked.
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