#Grand ages rome tropes archive
Identification of literary tropes is interpretive rather than absolute, and the editorial choices made in this archive reflect this fact. The political order established with the United States’ acquisition of California (1848) and California’s entry into the Union (1850)-events preceding the Lone Woman’s arrival on the mainland by just a few years-endures, structuring the lives of California’s Native peoples and defining the limits of their sovereignty, today as in the past.įirst edition of Island of the Blue Dolphins (1960), published by Houghton Mifflin with cover art by Evaline Ness. This makes good sense as a central feature of settler colonialism is its ongoing nature, its perpetuity. The tropes also help to justify the action of both the American actors in the tale (the "rescuers" or "discoverers") and the American readers encountering the story in newspapers, magazines, scientific journals, and literature, an encounter that may take place days, months, decades, or even centuries (e.g., Scott O’Dell’s Island of the Blue Dolphins) after the events described. Literary tropes function as a tool that makes the Lone Woman’s story both familiar and exotic. Importantly, the various accounts of the Lone Woman differ not only in which details of the 1814, 1835, and 1853 events they report, but also in the degree to which their recitation of these plot events are merged with literary trope-metaphors that place the events of the Lone Woman’s story within explanatory frameworks forged during the period of European Discovery and Conquest and refined in American discourse during the establishment of the first settler societies (e.g., the Pilgrims in Massachusetts). A representative selection of the Lone Woman’s personal items are sent to Rome.The Lone Woman is conditionally baptized and then buried at the Santa Barbara Mission.George Nidever turns down offers to display the Lone Woman on stage or in circus.The Lone Woman sings/dances/performs/interacts with visiting children.The priests bring Indians to speak with the Lone Woman but no one understands her language.The Lone Woman confronts modernity (e.g., sees a horseback rider and/or wagon for the first time).European-style clothes are sewn for the Lone Woman.The Lone Woman "narrates" her story by signs.Helps with various tasks (e.g., bringing wood and water).Searches fail to yield the Lone Woman but uncover signs of her continued presence on the island.Priests request a search for the Lone Woman.The schooner Peor es Nada is not able to return to San Nicolas Island to collect the Lone Woman (it capsizes).Mechanism by which the Lone Woman was left on San Nicolas Island (e.g., jump overboard, "away at the mountains," went back for a child).Request for removal of the Nicoleños to the mainland (variously, by priests or government officials).
The confrontation’s aftermath (e.g., slaying of the men, possession of the women).Confrontation between Alaska Native ( Aleut or Kodiak) and Russian hunters and the Nicoleños.George Nidever "discovering" the Lone Woman, published in Californian Illustrated Magazine, 1893. Each account draws from a selection of the following "plot" elements, with some including most of the details listed below and others containing just a few. As one reads through hundreds of accounts of the story, the similarity of details reported becomes apparent. San Nicolas Island, how she came into contact with the hunting party of the Tennessee-born George Nidever in 1853, and how she arrived in, adjusted to, and died in Santa Barbara, California, is told many times in the documents constituting this archive. The story of how the Lone Woman came to be the sole inhabitant of 1 Through a combination of deadly violence, forced relocation, and legal fiction, great numbers of the Native peoples of California disappeared in the nineteenth century, paving the way for the founding of white California and the proud celebration of its pioneers. In doing so, it makes visible the utility of the Lone Woman story in reinforcing what scholars have termed "settler colonialism," the process by which settlers move into a colonial landscape and replace, literally and figuratively, the native inhabitants.
The interpretive mode feature of the Lone Woman and Last Indians Digital Archive highlights how and to what degree individual accounts of the Lone Woman’s story participate in the creation of a mythic narrative of the Lone Woman, the American Indian, and the encounter between white settlers and indigenous Californians.
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