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Informationen zum Autor Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664. Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin. Klappentext Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604¿1664.¿Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin. Zusammenfassung In colonial North and South America! print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsForewordPaul Chaat SmithAcknowledgmentsIntroductionMatt Cohen and Jeffrey GloverPart I. Beyond Textual Media1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native AmericaGermaine Warkentin2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and LiteracyAndrew Newman3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great LakesHeidi BohakerPart II. Multimedia Texts4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s Nueva Corónica y Buen GobiernoBirgit Brander Rasmussen5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of QuilcaGalen Brokaw6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall TaleGordon M. SayrePart III. Sensory New Worlds7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English EncountersPeter Charles Hoffer8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New EnglandJon Coleman9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of AnalogyRichard Cullen RathPart IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of PeruRalph Bauer11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native BorderlandsJeffrey Glover12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal LanguageSarah RivettContributorsIndex...
