Joanna Brooks

Why We Left

Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants

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Produktbeschreibung

"Why We Left reveals the dislocation, violence, and deforestation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, offering a powerful restorying of the journey to our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, Joanna Brooks shares a scholarly and personal account of the intergenerational traumas that shape the history of white Anglos on Turtle Island"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Minnesota Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 140mm x 215mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 330g
• ISBN-13: 9780816681266
• ISBN-10: 0816681260
• Artikelnr.: 69829856

Autorenporträt

Joanna Brooks is professor and chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She is the author of the award-winning American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures as well as The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
 
Acknowledgments
 
Introduction: Brave Men Run
 
1. No Land of Opportunity: Folk Ballads and the Story of Why We Left
 
2. Murder the Brother Who Killed the Tree: Fratricide and the Story of
Deforestation
 
3. Two Sisters and a Beaver Hat: Desire and the Story of Colonial Commodity
Culture
 
4. To Sink It in the Lonesome Sea: Betrayal and the Story of Indentured
Servitude
 
5. Seduction of the House Carpenter’s Wife: Abandonment and the Story of
Colonial
Migration
 
Epilogue: Ballad of the Laboring Poor
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index