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work_c53xjpsvsfa7zjqdnqxwzxchlm	Scott Andrews	Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance (Mark Rifkin)	2015.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1333	61	51	Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American As I read Mark Rifkin's Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the but in reading works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, and Herman Melville, he Sense refers to the "quotidian" ways the mechanics of settler colonialism operate, many times Rifkin considers texts that may refer to Indians only in passing, but still he explores ways that Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Melville enable the continued dominance of native communities by the For Thoreau, Rifkin examines Walden and its binary oppositions of city and nature. For Melville, Rifkin examines Pierre, which represents the city rather than nature as the site for upon the continued domination of the region's native people, making this "queer urban Rifkin's project of finding a text's internal contradictions, its unspoken ideologies, or its If I may paraphrase Kermode in reference to Rifkin's writing style: Sometimes his sentences can 	./cache/work_c53xjpsvsfa7zjqdnqxwzxchlm.pdf	./txt/work_c53xjpsvsfa7zjqdnqxwzxchlm.txt