On James Fenimore Cooper’s View of Race from The Last of the Mohicans

摘要

James Fenimore Cooper is a very famous and popular writer in America who is the founder of the America literature on romanticism, so he is called the first American novelist. In 1820, Cooper publishes his first novel, from then on he publishes over 50 novels altogether. The characters we are talking about are from one of his best known novels"The Last of the Mohicans",the second part of The Leatherstocking Tales which is his most famous and influencing novel. Through the novel, the author believes that the process of the early American movement towards the west is actually a process of massacre of American Indians.The article points out that James Fenimore Cooper has sympathy with American Indians, but at the same time showing his ambiguities on many issues.