The common pot [[electronic resource] ] : the recovery of native space in the Northeast / / Lisa Brooks

• Autore: Brooks Lisa Tanya
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (410 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.897074; 970.004/97
• Soggetto topico: Geographical perception - North America; Indian philosophy; Indians of North America - Psychology; Sacred space - North America
• Note generali: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral--Cornell University, 2004).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-319) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; A Note on the Maps; Introduction: A Map to the Common Pot; 1. Alnôbawôgan, Wlôgan, Awikhigan: Entering Native Space; 2. Restoring a Dish Turned Upside Down: Samson Occom, the Mohegan Land Case, and the Writing of Communal Remembrance; 3. Two Paths to Peace: Competing Visions of the Common Pot; 4. Regenerating the Village Dish: William Apess and the Mashpee Woodland Revolt; 5. Envisioning New England as Native Space; 6. Awikhigawôgan: Mapping the Genres of Indigenous Writing in the Network of Relations ; 7. Concluding Thoughts from Wabanaki Space: Literacy and the Oral TraditionNotes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders-including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apess-adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States. "The Common Pot," a metaphor that appears in Native writings during the eighteenth and nineteenth
• Titolo autorizzato: The common pot
• ISBN: 0-8166-6629-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782848803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indigenous Americas.