SOURCE: “The Aesthetic of Dispossession: Washington Irving and Ideologies of (De)Colonization in the Early Republic,” American Literary History, Vol. 8, No. 2, Summer, 1996, pp. 205-31.
In the following essay, Murray discusses early American views on identity and nationality through an analysis of the works of Irving and William Apess.
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