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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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"&q...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kolodny, Annette, 1941-2019
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2012.
Series:Online access with subscription: Duke University Press.
Subjects:
Gemeinnützige Siedlungs-Aktiengesellschaft Altona
Sagas > History and criticism.
Sagas > Histoire et critique.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Discoveries in geography > Norse.
Literature.
Sagas.
Entdeckung > Motiv
Rezeption
America > Discovery and exploration > Norse.
America > Literatures > History and criticism.
Amérique > Littératures > Histoire et critique.
America.
Amerika
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The politics of American prehistory : isolation versus contact
  • Contact and conflict : what the Vinland sagas tell us
  • Anglo-America's Viking heritage : a nineteenth-century romance
  • The New England poets of Viking America and the emergence of the plastic Viking
  • The challenge to Columbus and the romance undone
  • "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before" : the phantom of first contact
  • Contact and conflict again : what native stories tell us.

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