Annette Kolodny

In Search of First Contact

The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery

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Produktbeschreibung

A radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic tales, known as the Vinland sagas, considering what the they reveal about native peoples, and how they contribute to the debate about whether Leif Eiriksson or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first "discoverer" of America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352822
• ISBN-10: 0822352826
• Artikelnr.: 34968103

Autorenporträt

Annette Kolodny

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on the Problematics of Word Choice and Usage xv
Prologue. The Autobiography of a Book 1
1. The Politics of American Prehistory: Isolation versus Contact 19
2. Contact and Conflict: What the Vinland Sagas Tell Us 44
3. Anglo-America's Viking Heritage: A Nineteenth-Century romance 103
4. The New England Poets of Viking America and the Emergence of the Plastic
Viking 151
5. The Challenge to Columbus and the Romance Undone 213
6. "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had
been before": The Phantom of First Contact 257
7. Contact and Conflict Again: What Native Stories Tell Us 280
Epilogue. History Lessons 327
Notes 335
Works Consulted 379
Index 407