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Loading... The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (Indigenous Americas)by Lisa Brooks
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A really important book that maps and remaps Native New England space through writings by Native people from the area. I was impressed by the ways that Brooks was able to disrupt colonial geographies, and still render the land legible--a testament to her commitment to using place names and inscribing the world with indigenous knowledge systems. The chapter about Samson Occom's preaching and fight for Mohegan land was particularly instructive in the ways that Native people negotiated territory claims through language. A really great book, even if all of the literary analysis was not 100% my cup of tea. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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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 No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)970.004History and Geography North America North America North America Ethnic and National GroupsLC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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