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Informationen zum Autor Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Edited by Robert Dale Parker Klappentext Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American Indian literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (her English name) or Bamewawagezhikaquay (her Ojibwe name), Woman of the Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky (1800-1842). Beginning as early as 1815, Schoolcraft wrote poems and traditional stories while also translating songs and other Ojibwe texts into English. Her stories were published in adapted, unattributed versions by her husband, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, a founding figure in American anthropology and folklore, and they became a key source for Longfellow's sensationally popular The Song of Hiawatha. As this volume shows, what little has been known about Schoolcraft's writing and life only scratches the surface of her legacy. Most of the works have been edited from manuscripts and appear in print here for the first time. The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky presents a collection of all Schoolcraft's extant writings along with a cultural and biographical history. Robert Dale Parker's deeply researched account places her writings in relation to American Indian and American literary history and the history of anthropology, offering the story of Schoolcraft, her world, and her fascinating family as reinterpreted through her newly uncovered writing. This book makes available a startling new episode in the history of American culture and literature. Zusammenfassung Introducing a dramatic new chapter to American literary history, this book brings to the public for the first time the complete writings of the first known American Indian literary writer, Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1800-1842). Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Introduction: The World and Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft -The Cultural World of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft -The Personal World -The Literary Writings: Poetry, Stories, Translations -The Final Years -The Literary Legacy -Notes to Introduction Abbreviations WRITINGS To the Pine Tree on first seeing it on returning from Europe To the Miscodeed Lines written at Castle Island, Lake Superior On the Doric Rock, Lake Superior: To a Friend "My humble present is a purse" Invocation, To my Maternal Grand-father on hearing his descent from Chippewa ancestors misrepresented -Invocation to my Maternal Grandfather, Wabo jeeg [shorter draft] -Invocation to my Maternal Grandfather, Wabo jeeg [longer draft] To a Bird, Seen Under My Window in the Garden Lines to a Friend Asleep By an Ojibwa Female Pen, Invitation to sisters to a walk in the Garden, after a shower Pensive Hours -(Pensive Lines) The Contrast, a Splenetic Effusion. March, 1823- -The Contrast On Henry's Birthday Absence -Nindahwaymau -Neezhicka -Neenawbame -Ningwisis "Amid the still retreat of Elmwood's shade" Resignation [1] -Resignation [2] Lines written under affliction Relief A Metrical Jeu d'esprit, designed as an invitation to a whist party -Response Elegy, On the death of my Son William Henry, at St. Mary's Sonnet To my ever lamented and beloved son William Henry Sweet Willy Lines Written under severe Pain and Sickness On leaving my children John and Jane at School, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior -Free translation by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -New translation by Dennis Jones, Heidi Stark, and James Vukelich An answer, to a remonstrance on my being melancholy, by a Gentleman, who, sometimes had a little pleasing touch of melancholy himself Language Divine! "As watchful spirit...
