| Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period Contributor(s): Lopenzina, Drew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1438439784 ISBN-13: 9781438439785 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2013 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Literary Criticism | Native American - History | United States - Colonial Period (1600-1775) |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| Series: Suny Series, Native Traces |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.20 lbs) 412 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American - Cultural Region - New England |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Native peoples of colonial New England were quick to grasp the practical functions of Western literacy. Their written literary output was composed to suit their own needs and expressed views often in resistance to the agendas of the European colonists they were confronted with. Red Ink is an engaging retelling of American colonial history, one that draws on documents that have received scant critical and scholarly attention to offer an important new interpretation grounded in indigenous contexts and perspectives. Author Drew Lopenzina reexamines a literature that has been compulsively corrected and overinscribed with the norms and expectations of the dominant culture, while simultaneously invoking the often violent tensions of contact and the processes of unwitnessing by which Native histories and accomplishments were effectively erased from the colonial record. In a compelling narrative arc, Lopenzina enables the reader to travel through a history that, however familiar, has never been fully appreciated or understood from a Native-centered perspective. |