ENGL 2P13 Lecture 4: ENGL 2P13 Calamity Jane
28 Jan 2016
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Linda mizejewski argues that calamity jane is the figure in the western who points most clearly to the presence of diverse bodies and sexualities within the histories and legends of the west . [she functions) as a register of contemporary cultural contentions about gender and sexuality, a dynamic that began in the earliest fictionalizations of the figure. Understanding translocal citizenship, transnational affiliation, de-territorialization (how to think about the i without the nation/state) Crowfoot negotiates treaty 7 for the blackfoot confederacy, the sarcee and the stoney / draws a peace with sitting bull and the apache. Moving pictures : thomas edison and annie oakley (edison invents the movie studio (the black maria), the vote recorder and the iron-ore separator in the late 1880s. Dime novel erasmus and irwin beadle (1860) /increased literacy post-civil war related to the links between being literate and being free. Buyers are young, working-class imagining heroes they can relate to.
