UID:
almahu_9949287441002882
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9780300262315
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9783110754001
Series Statement:
The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity
Content:
A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks Kelly Wisecup offers a sweeping account of early Native American literatures by examining Indigenous compilations: intentionally assembled texts that Native people made by juxtaposing and recontextualizing textual excerpts into new relations and meanings. Experiments in reading and recirculation, Indigenous compilations include Mohegan minister Samson Occom's medicinal recipes, the Ojibwe woman Charlotte Johnston's poetry scrapbooks, and Abenaki leader Joseph Laurent's vocabulary lists. Indigenous compilations proliferated in a period of colonial archive making, and Native writers used compilations to remake the very forms that defined their bodies, belongings, and words as ethnographic evidence. This study enables new understandings of canonical Native writers like William Apess, prominent settler collectors like Thomas Jefferson and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and Native people who contributed to compilations but remain absent from literary histories. Long before current conversations about decolonizing archives and museums, Native writers made and circulated compilations to critique colonial archives and foster relations within Indigenous communities.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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Acknowledgments --
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A Note on Terms --
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Timeline --
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Introduction --
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chapter one Recipe: Plant Vocabularies, Indigenous Bodies, and Antiquarian Reprinting --
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Interlude William Apess's Bright Gleams --
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CHAPTER TWO EXTRACT Cherokee Nationhood and Indigenous Archives of Diplomacy --
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Interlude E. Pauline Johnson's Wild Flowers --
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CHAPTER THREE ALBUM Reading and Recirculating Poetry in Anishinaabe Networks --
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Interlude Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's Unfi nished Scraps --
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CHAPTER FOUR L I ST Abenaki Histories and Linguistic Exchange --
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Interlude Carlos Montezuma's Famous Indians --
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CHAPTER FIVE ACCOUNT Reading Colonialism at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition --
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EPILOGUE Compilation's Afterlives --
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NOTES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
URL:
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300262315
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780300262315
