Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical AnthologyKristina Bross, Hilary E. Wyss University of Massachusetts Press, 2008 - 276 pages Designed as a corrective to colonial literary histories that have excluded Native voices, this anthology brings together a variety of primary texts produced by the Algonquian peoples of New England during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and very early nineteenth centuries. Included among these written materials and objects are letters, signatures, journals, baskets, pictographs, confessions, wills, and petitions, each of which represents a form of authorship. Together they demonstrate the continuing use of traditional forms of memory and communication and the lively engagement of Native peoples with alphabetic literacy during the colonial period. Each primary text is accompanied by an essay that places it in context and explores its significance. Written by leading scholars in the field, these readings draw on recent trends in literary analysis, history, and anthropology to provide an excellent overview of the field of early Native studies. They are also intended to provoke discussion and open avenues for further exploration by students and other interested readers. Above all, the texts and commentaries gathered in this volume provide an opportunity to see Native American literature as a continuity of expression that reflects choices made long before contact and colonization, rather than as a nineteenth -- or even twentieth-century invention.Contributors include Heidi Bohaker, Heather Bouwman, Joanna Brooks, Kristina Bross, Stephanie Fitzgerald, Sandra Gustafson, Laura Arnold Leibman, Kevin McBride, David Murray, Laura Murray, Jean O'Brien, Ann Marie Plane, Philip Round, Jodi Schorb, David Silverman, and Hilary E. Wyss. |
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... European print - as an index of Occom's identity . At age nine- Occom's response to these charges is equally revealing . Rather than answer them publicly - or ignore them completely — he penned an autobiography . Writing an ...
... European books among the traditional grave goods in Algonquian burial sites in the Northeast - suggests a complex intermingling of European and Native , English and vernacular modes of signification . Similarly , the text itself , as an ...
... European or Native manufac- ture ) , which were associated in significant ways with the individuals with whom they were placed , were selected on the basis of the individual's age , gender , role , and status . The European objects and ...
Contents
The Mohegans | 15 |
Joseph Johnson Diary 1773 | 28 |
Laura J Murray Joseph Johnsons Diary Farmington | 42 |
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