Unscripted America

Unscripted America

Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation

Rivett, Sarah

Oxford University Press Inc

11/2017

400

Dura

Inglês

9780190492564

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction 1. The 'Savage Sounds' of Christian Translation: How Missionaries Confronted the Limits of Universalism in Early America 2. Learning to Write Algonquian Letters: The Indigenous Place of Language Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World 3. Local Linguistics and Indigenous Cosmologies of the Early Eighteenth Century Atlantic World 4. Imperial Millennialism and the Battle for American Indian Souls 5. The Nature of Indian Words in the Rise of Anglo-American Nativism 6. Franco-Catholic Communication and Indian Alliance in the Seven Years War 7. Unruly Empiricisms and Linguistic Sovereignty in Thomas Jefferson's Indian Vocabulary Project 8. Indigenous Metaphors and the Philosophy of History in Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales Coda: Remembered Forms of a Literary Nation Notes Bibliography Index