04/16/2024
Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts is delighted to announce that an essay from our 64.3 special issue has been honored with an award from the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.
Dr. Mark Alan Mattes' essay “Trees and Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, and the Logan Elm” can be downloaded at the link below.
The article is based on Dr. Mattes' research examining how Indigenous and colonial archives shape histories about Native Americans and the Ohio River Valley. This research also forms part of a larger book project entitled Archival Apocrypha: The Figure of Logan in Colonial and Native American History.
The essay was awarded with the 2024 BIPOC Scholars Award from the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association. Congratulations, Dr. Mattes!
Trees and Texts: Indigenous History, Material Media, and the Logan Elm Settler accounts of the Cayuga Native American Soyeghtowa (Logan), such as Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia, interpret his famous mourning speech, “Logan’s Lament,” as the words of a melancholic, noble savage and vanishing Indian. This essay decolonizes settler accounts of L...