Allegories of encounter : colonial literacy and Indian captivities / Andrew Newman.

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Newman, Andrew, 1968- [Author]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia, and the University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781469643472
9781469643465

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PN56 .A454 2019

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Subject: "Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books"--

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"Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial America's best-known literary genre, Andrew Newman analyzes depictions of reading, writing, and recollecting texts in Indian captivity narratives. While histories of literacy and colonialism have emphasized the experiences of Native Americans, as students in missionary schools or as parties to treacherous treaties, captivity narratives reveal what literacy meant to colonists among Indians. Colonial captives treasured the written word in order to distinguish themselves from their Native captors and to affiliate with their distant cultural communities. Their narratives suggest that Indians recognized this value, sometimes with benevolence: repeatedly, they presented colonists with books"--

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Captivity as Literacy Event; Chapter One: Rowlandson's Captivity, Interpreted by God; Chapter Two: Psalm 137 as a Site of Encounter; Chapter Three: Captive Literacies in the Eastern Woodlands; Chapter Four: Fulfilling the Name; Chapter Five: Silent Books, Talking Leaves; Chapter Six: "A Singular Gift from a Savage"; Conclusion; Note on the Sources; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z.

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