In Search of First Contact
The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
1st Edition
Published on 29. May 2012
448 pages
978-0-8223-9553-9 (ISBN)
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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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The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery
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Duke University Press
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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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05/2012
Duke University Press
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Annette Kolodny is College of Humanities Professor Emerita of American Literature and Culture at the University of Arizona. She is the author of Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century and the editor of The Life and Traditions of the Red Man, by Joseph Nicolar, both also published by Duke University Press. In addition, she is the author of The Land Before Her: Fantasy and Experience of the American Frontiers, 1630-1860, and The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters.
Content
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
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
