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Unsettling South Dakota Literature: Countering Lionized Representations Of A Frontier Fantasy Space, Lindsay R. Stephens
Unsettling South Dakota Literature: Countering Lionized Representations Of A Frontier Fantasy Space, Lindsay R. Stephens
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In this dissertation, I challenge the pervasive notion of South Dakota as a settler fantasy space by considering several of its twentieth and twenty-first century literary offerings through the lens of Settler Colonial Studies. Settler colonial ideology has long dominated historical, sociopolitical, and literary narratives in South Dakota, affecting state policy, Lakota and Dakota sovereignty, public school curricula, the state’s economy, and even state and local responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Notions of Manifest Destiny and a Wild West frontier continue to evolve, shift, and resolidify in South Dakota, playing a key role in the perpetuation of institutionalized disenfranchisement and …