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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
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.
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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
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.
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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period

Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period

by Drew Lopenzina
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period
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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period

Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period

by Drew Lopenzina

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781438439808
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 03/01/2012
Series: SUNY series, Native Traces
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 412
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Drew Lopenzina is Assistant Professor of American Literature at Sam Houston State University.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction
Survival Writing: Contesting the “Pen and Ink Work” of Colonialism

1. Wussuckwheke, or the Painted Letter: Glimpses of Native Signification Acknowledged and Unwitnessed (1492-1643)

2. Praying Indians, Printing Devils: Centers of Indigeneity within Colonial Containments (1643-1665)

3. King Philip’s Signature: Ascribing Philip’s Name to Land, War, and History in Native New England (1660-1709)

4. Beneath the Wave: The Maintenance of Native Tradition in Hidden Transcripts (1709-1768)

5. A Tale of Two Settlements: Mohican, Mohegan, and the Road to Brotherton (1724-1785)

Afterword
O’ Brotherton, Where Art Though

Notes
Bibliography
Index
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