| Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures Contributor(s): Wisecup, Kelly (Author) |
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ISBN: 0300243286 ISBN-13: 9780300243284 Publisher: Yale University Press OUR PRICE: $39.60 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American - History | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.35 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks Kelly Wisecup offers a sweeping account of Native American literatures by examining what she calls Indigenous compilations: intentionally assembled texts that Native people made by juxtaposing and recontextualizing textual excerpts into new relations and meanings. Experiments in reading and recirculation, Indigenous compilations include Mohegan minister Samson Occom's medicinal recipes, the Ojibwe woman Charlotte Johnston's poetry scrapbooks, and Abenaki leader Joseph Laurent's vocabulary lists. Indigenous compilations proliferated in a period of colonial archive making, and Native writers used compilations to remake the very forms that defined their bodies, belongings, and words as ethnographic evidence. This study enables new understandings of canonical Native writers like William Apess, prominent collectors like Thomas Jefferson and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and Native people who contributed to compilations but remain absent from literary histories. Indigenous compilations dramatically expand studies of Native American literatures by illuminating histories of making, reading, and using texts in Indigenous communities and colonial archives. |