Allegories of encounter : colonial literacy and Indian captivities
2019
810.9 N554 2019
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Title
Allegories of encounter : colonial literacy and Indian captivities
Variant Title
Colonial literacy and Indian captivities
Published
Williamsburg, VA : Chapel Hill : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture ; University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Description
vi, 222 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
810.9 N554 2019
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1043049882
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-210) and index.
L2022M113
"Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books"--Back cover.
L2022M113
"Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books"--Back cover.
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