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Unscripted America : indigenous languages and the origins of a literary nation /
Unscripted America reconstructs an archive of indigenous language texts in order to present a new and wholly unique account of their impact on philosophy and US literary culture.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in American literary history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "savage sounds" of Christian translation: missionaries confront the limits of universalism in early America
- Learning to write Algonquian letters: the indigenous place of language philosophy in the seventeenth-century Atlantic world
- Indigenous cosmologies of the early eighteenth-century Atlantic world
- Imperial millennialism and the battle for American Indian souls
- The nature of Indian words in the rise of Anglo-American nativism
- Franco-Catholic communication and Indian alliance in the Seven Years War
- Unruly empiricisms and linguistic sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian vocabulary project
- Indigenous metaphors and the philosophy of history in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales
- Coda: remembered forms of a literary nation.