Early Native Literacies in New England - A Documentary and Critical Anthology

Informationen zum Autor Kristina Bross is associate professor of English and American studies at Purdue University and author of Dry Bones and Indian Sermons: Praying Indians in Colonial America. Hilary E. Wyss is associate professor of English at Auburn University and author of Writing Indians: Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America (University of Massachusetts Press, 2000). Klappentext Examines some of the work of early American writers that centered around the Algonquian Indians. Zusammenfassung Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices! this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth! eighteenth! and very early nineteenth centuries. It includes letters! signatures! journals! baskets! pictographs! and petitions.

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• Authors: Kristina Wyss Bross, Not Available (NA)
• Assisted by: Kristina Bross (Editor), Hilary Wyss (Editor), Hilary E Wyss (Editor), Hilary E. Wyss (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.05.2008
• EAN: 9781558496484
• ISBN: 978-1-55849-648-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Native Americans of the Northe; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary S.; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary; Native Americans of the Northe; Native Americans of the Northeast: Culture, History & the Contemporary
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies