Title Queequeg's coffin : indigenous literacies and early American literature / Birgit Brander Rasmussen

Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 207 pages) Series e-Duke books scholarly collection. 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2020. HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Indian literature -- History and criticism Indians -- Languages -- Writing. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Native American. Indian literature Indians -- Languages -- Writing Literature Indianer Indigenes Volk Schriftlichkeit Literatur Europäer Kulturkonflikt Kulturkontakt Amerikansk litteratur -- historia -- 1800-talet. Indiansk litteratur -- historia. Nordamerikanska språk. SUBJECT America -- Literatures -- History and criticism Subject America Amerika Genre/Form Electronic books Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780822393832 0822393832 9786613409119 6613409111

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