Description: Allegories of Encounter : Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities, Hardcover by Newman, Andrew, ISBN 1469643456, ISBN-13 9781469643458, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Presenting an innovative, interdisciplinary approach to colonial Americas 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.
In this way and others, Scriptures, saintly lives, and even Shakespeare were introduced into diverse experiences of colonial captivity. What other scholars have understood more simply as textual parallels, Newman argues instead may reflect lived allegories, the identification of ones own unfolding story with the stories of others. In an authoritative, wide-ranging study that encompasses the foundational New England narratives, accounts of martyrdom and cultural conversion in New France and Mohawk country in the 1600s, and narratives set in Cherokee territory and the Great Lakes region during the late eighteenth century, Newman opens up old tales to fresh, thought-provoking interpretations.
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Book Title: Allegories of Encounter : Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivitie
Number of Pages: 236 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Allegories of Encounter : Colonial Literacy and Indian Captivities
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Subject: United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Literacy, United States / General, Native American
Publication Year: 2019
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 3 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Andrew Newman
Item Width: 6.1 in
Series: Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Ser.
Format: Hardcover
