The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War Waterman Adam John
Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of…
Specifikacia The Corpse in the Kitchen: Enclosure, Extraction, and the Afterlives of the Black Hawk War Waterman Adam John
Reassessing the archive of the Black Hawk War, The Corpse in the Kitchen explores relationships between the enclosure of Indigenous land, histories of resource extraction, and the literary culture of settler colonialism. While conventional histories of the Black Hawk War have long treated the conflict as gratuitous, Adam John Waterman argues that the war part of a struggle over the dispensation of mineral resources--specifically, mineral lead--and the emergence of new cultures of killing and composition. The elemental basis for the fabrication of bullets, lead drawn from the mines of the upper Mississippi contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous peoples through the consolidation of US control over a vital military resource. Rendered as metallic type, Mississippian lead contributed to the expansion of print culture, providing the occasion for literary justifications of