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A 6 page essay that compares Josiah Joyce's novel The Feud of Oakfield Creek (1887) and Maria Ruiz de Burton's The Squatter and the Don (1885). The author argues that these nineteenth century novels largely substantiate each other in the manner in which they represent "rapacious Anglo Saxon land hunger" (Royce 468). The main difference between the two texts lies in the narrative perspective of the authors. No additional sources cited.
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written from different perspectives, these nineteenth century novels largely substantiate each other in the manner in which they represent "rapacious Anglo Saxon land hunger" (Royce 468). The main difference
between the two texts lies in the narrative perspective of the authors. Royce tends to concentrate more on the degradation that ensued among the Anglo-Saxon invaders, while Ruiz de
Burton focuses on the perspective of the people being conquered. Nevertheless, they both agree that the American conquest of California did not occur in the manner that it was depicted
elsewhere. The introduction to Ruiz de Burtons text points out that traditional history texts have portrayed the Americans in early California history as "energetic, kind-hearted, moral" Protestants. These texts
pitted these exemplary Americans against nefariously portrayed Mexican/Spanish-descended Catholics in a manner that casts the Anglo Americans as the "good" guys (8). In other words, the traditional view of historians,
as well as contemporary observers at that time, was totally ethnocentric and translated cultural difference as deviance. Both of these nineteenth century works offer an alternative, fairer perspective than the
mainstream version of this period. The Feud of Oakfield Creek is the last of three books that Royce wrote in the 1880s after accepting a post at
Harvard. In this text, Royce combines romance and storytelling with an historical subtext that denounces, rather than romanticizes, the behavior of the American settlers and squatters that invaded
California like a hoard of locust after the discovery of gold. This subtext, which portrays the struggle for land and power, takes on metaphysical significance as Royce relates how this
situation portrays concerns for society in general and , in particular, how communal solidarity provides one of humanitys principal defenses against evil. The principal characters in Royces
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