Allegories of Encounter
Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
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Author
Publication
2019-01-07 - Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-101469643456
- ISBN-139781469643458
- Library of Congress Control Number2018031157
- OCLC Control Number1043049882
- Better World Books9781469643458
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27761366M
Classifications
- LCCPN56.C36N49 2019
- LCCPN56.C36 N49 2019
Description
"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"--
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