Queequeg's Coffin
Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature
1st Edition
Published on 6. January 2012
224 pages
978-0-8223-9383-2 (ISBN)
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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.
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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.
Content
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
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
