Colonial Mediascapes
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Colonial Mediascapes

Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

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Colonial Mediascapes

Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

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In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was privileged, and written texts often relied on nonwritten modes of communication.
Colonial Mediascapes examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America. Extending the textual foundations of early American literary history, the editors bring a wide range of media to the attention of scholars and show how struggles over modes of communication intersected with conflicts over religion, politics, race, and gender. This collection of essays by major historians, anthropologists, and literary scholars demonstrates that the European settlement of the Americas and European interaction with Native peoples were shaped just as much by communication challenges as by traditional concerns such as religion, economics, and resources.

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Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Year
2014
ISBN
9780803254411
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Native American Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Foreword
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Part I: Beyond Textual Media
  10. 1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model?
  11. 2. Early Americanist Grammatology
  12. 3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great Lakes
  13. Part II: Multimedia Texts
  14. 4. The Manuscript, the Quipu, and the Early American Book
  15. 5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of Quilca
  16. 6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”
  17. Part III: Sensory New Worlds
  18. 7. Brave New Worlds
  19. 8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots
  20. 9. Hearing Wampum
  21. Part IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes
  22. 10. Writing as “Khipu”
  23. 11. Christian Indians at War
  24. 12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth
  25. Notes
  26. Contributors
  27. Index
  28. About the Editors