Brander Rasmussen Queequeg's Coffin

Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9383-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten

Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brander Rasmussen, Birgit

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction. " A New World Still in the Making: 1

1. Writing and Colonial Conflict 17

2. Negotiating Peace, Negotiating Literacies: The Undetermined Encounter with Early American Literature 49

3. Writing in the Conflict Zone: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno 79

4. Indigenous Literacies, Moby-Dick, and the Promise of Queequeg's Coffin 111

Afterword 139

Notes 145

Works Cited 185

Index 201

Über Autor(innen)

Birgit Brander Rasmussen is Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race & Migration at Yale University. She is coeditor of The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness, also published by Duke University Press.