Queequeg''s Coffin - Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature

Informationen zum Autor Birgit Brander Rasmussen Klappentext Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville. Zusammenfassung Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists! Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Introduction. " A New World Still in the Making: 1 1. Writing and Colonial Conflict 17 2. Negotiating Peace, Negotiating Literacies: The Undetermined Encounter with Early American Literature 49 3. Writing in the Conflict Zone: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno 79 4. Indigenous Literacies, Moby-Dick, and the Promise of Queequeg's Coffin 111 Afterword 139 Notes 145 Works Cited 185 Index 201

Product details

• Authors: Birgit Brander Rasmussen, BRANDER RASMUSSEN BIRGIT, Birgit Brander Rasmussen
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2012
• EAN: 9780822349358
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4935-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Literaturwissenschaft: Antike und Mittelalter