Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Logan (novel)

Logan (novel)

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page.

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/April 19, 2023 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 13:56, 13 March 2023 (UTC)



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.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The most recent TFA directly related to John Neal was Rachel Dyer, which was featured August 22, 2023. Looking back through all the TFA's as far as November 1, 2023, I couldn't find any TFAs about a novel. The closest in topic seemed to be English professor Colin Robert Chase (February 5), Dime Mystery Magazine (January 26), and Farseer trilogy (January 12). These are all pretty different in era and genre. Meanwhile, there were plenty of articles about military and contemporary music topics.
 * Main editors: Dugan Murphy
 * Promoted: February 16, 2023
 * Reasons for nomination: This was just promoted to FAC. Though it is about a novel few living people have read, it touches upon currently relevant topics like race and Indigenous nationhood in the US. I can't think of a particular date when it would be particularly relevant to have it on the main page.
 * Support as nominator. Dugan Murphy (talk) 22:55, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Support. Gog the Mild (talk) 23:06, 23 February 2023 (UTC)