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Queequeg's Coffin : Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature /
Rather than seeing American literature as beginning with the writings of English or Spanish colonists, Brander Rasmussen points to the wide variety of indigenous writing in the Americas prior to colonization. The study looks at writing between 1524 and the mid-19th century work of Herman Melville.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "A new world still in the making"
- Writing and colonial conflict
- Negotiating peace, negotiating literacies : the undetermined encounter and early American literature
- Writing in the conflict zone : Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's el Primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno
- Indigenous literacies, Moby-Dick, and the promise of Queequeg's coffin.