Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Queequeg's Coffin

Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780822349358
• ISBN-10: 0822349353
• Artikelnr.: 34164004

Inhaltsangabe

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