English Letters and Indian Literacies - Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

Informationen zum Autor Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature at Auburn University. Klappentext Hilary E. Wyss is Hargis Associate Professor of American Literature at Auburn University. Zusammenfassung Focusing on boarding schools established by New England missionaries! English Letters and Indian Literacies explores the ways Native students negotiated the variety of pedagogical practices and technologies of literacy and managed those technologies for their own ends. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: Technologies of Literacy Chapter 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth-Century New England Chapter 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson Chapter 3. Brainerd's Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation Chapter 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy Notes Works Cited Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Hilary E Wyss, Hilary E. Wyss
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.05.2012
• EAN: 9780812244137
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4413-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Haney Foundation Series; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation; Haney Foundation Series
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies