Red ink : native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period / Drew Lopenzina.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lopenzina, Drew.

Series:

Native traces.

Native traces

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--History and criticism.

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (414 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Native peoples of colonial New England were quick to grasp the practical functions of Western literacy. Their written literary output was composed to suit their own needs and expressed views often in resistance to the agendas of the European colonists they were confronted with. Red Ink is an engaging retelling of American colonial history, one that draws on documents that have received scant critical and scholarly attention to offer an important new interpretation grounded in indigenous contexts and perspectives. Author Drew Lopenzina reexamines a literature that has been compulsively "corrected" and overinscribed with the norms and expectations of the dominant culture, while simultaneously invoking the often violent tensions of "contact" and the processes of unwitnessing by which Native histories and accomplishments were effectively erased from the colonial record. In a compelling narrative arc, Lopenzina enables the reader to travel through a history that, however familiar, has never been fully appreciated or understood from a Native-centered perspective.

Contents:

Introduction: surivial writing: contesting the pen and ink work of colonialism

Wussuckwheke or the painted letter: glimpses of native signification acknowledged and unwitnessed (1492-1643)

Praying Indians, printing devils: centers of indigeniety within colonial containments (1643-1665)

King Philip's signature: ascribing Philip's name to land, war and history in native New England (1660-1709)

Beneath the wave: the maintenance of native tradition in hidden transcripts (1709-1768)

A tale of two settlements; Mohican, Mohegan and the road to Brotherton (1724-1785)

Afterword: O' Brotherton where art thou.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781461904526

1461904528

9781438439808

1438439806

OCLC:

781628796