Indigenuity : Native Craftwork and the Art of American Literatures / Caroline Wigginton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wigginton, Caroline, author.

Series:

Critical indigeneities.

Critical Indigeneities Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian aesthetics.

Indians of North America--Colonization.

Indians of North America.

Indigenous people--Colonization.

Indigenous people of North America--Colonization.

Indigenous peoples--Colonization.

Indigenous peoples.

Local Subjects:

Indigenous people--Colonization.

Indigenous people of North America--Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 305 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps (chiefly colour), music, facsimiles (chiefly colour)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2022]

Summary:

"For hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines. Books, like other objects, were multisensory items all North American communities and cultures, including Native and settler colonial ones, regularly made and used. All cultures and communities narrated and documented their histories and imaginations through a variety of media. All created objects for domestic, sacred, curative, and collective purposes. In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, Caroline Wigginton tells a story of the interweavings of Native craftwork and American literatures from their ancient roots to the present. Focused primarily on North America, especially the colonized lands and waters now claimed by the United States, this book argues for the foundational but often-hidden aesthetic orientation of American literary history toward Native craftwork. Wigginton knits this narrative to another of Indigenous aesthetic repatriation through the making and using of books and works of material expression. Ultimately, she reveals that Native craftwork is by turns the warp and weft of American literature, interwoven throughout its long history."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Orientation

Perception

Translation

Composition

Decoration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-296) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9798890862099

9798890862105

9781469670362

1469670364

9781469670393

1469670399

OCLC:

1347059045