Title:
Assembled for use : Indigenous compilation and the archives of early Native American literatures
Author:
Publication Date:
2021
Publication Information:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2021]
©2021
Physical Description:
xviii, 309 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780300243284
Abstract:
A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks.
Contents:
Chapter one. Recipe: plant vocabularies, Indigenous bodies, and antiquarian reprinting -- Interlude. William Apess's Bright gleams -- Chapter two. Extract: Cherokee nationhood and Indigenous archives of diplomacy -- Interlude. E. Pauline Johnson's Wild flowers -- Chapter three. Album: reading and recirculating poetry in Anishinaabe networks -- Interlude. Jane Johnston Schoolcraft's Unfinished scraps -- Chapter four. List: Abenaki histories and linguistic exchange -- Interlude. Carlos Montezuma's famous Indians -- Chapter five. Account: reading colonialism at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition -- Epilogue: Compilation's afterlives.
Language:
English
