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Logan (novel)

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Author John Neal
Author John Neal

Logan is an 1822 Gothic novel by American writer John Neal (pictured). The book is inspired by the true story of Mingo leader Logan, but weaves a fictionalized story set just before the Revolutionary War. It depicts the genocide of Native Americans as the heart of the American story and follows a long cast of characters connected to each other in a complex web of overlapping love interests, family relations, rape, and (sometimes incestuous) sexual activity. Scholars criticize the story's profound excessiveness and incoherence, but praise its pioneering and successful experimentation with psychological horror, verisimilitude, sexual guilt in male characters, impacts of intergenerational violence, and documentation of interracial relationships and intersections between sex and violence on the American frontier. The novel is considered important by scholars studying the roles of Gothic literature and Indigenous identities in fashioning an American national identity. (Full article...)