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Queequeg's Coffin : Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature /
The encounter between European and native peoples in the Americas is often portrayed as a conflict between literate civilization and illiterate savagery. That perception ignores the many indigenous forms of writing that were not alphabet-based, such as Mayan pictoglyphs, Iroquois wampum, Ojibwe birc...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2012]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. ''A new world still in the making''
- Chapter one. Writing and colonial conflict
- Chapter two. Negotiating peace, negotiating literacies
- Chapter three. Writing in the conflict zone
- Chapter four. Indigenous literacies, Moby-Dick, and the promise of queequeg's coffin
- Afterword
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index