The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (Indigenous Americas)
Language: English
Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2008
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Nice book, minimal wear. Inscribed and signed by Brooks on front fly leaf to Bill Plumley, author of River Voices: Perspectives on the Presumpscot. One page is dog-eared and there are a few pages with light pencil underlining.
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- Title
- The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast (Indigenous Americas)
- Author
- Brooks, Lisa
- Publisher
- Univ Of Minnesota Press
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0816647844
- ISBN 13
- 9780816647842
Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance
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 centuries, embodies land, community, and the shared space of sustenance among relations. Far from being corrupted by forms of writing introduced by European colonizers, Brooks contends, Native people frequently rejected the roles intended for them by their missionary teachers and used the skills they acquired to compose petitions, political tracts, and speeches; to record community councils and histories; and most important, to imagine collectively the routes through which the Common Pot could survive. Reframing the historical landscape of the region, Brooks constructs a provocative new picture of Native space before and after colonization. By recovering and reexamining Algonquian and Iroquoian texts, she shows that writing was not a foreign technology but rather a crucial weapon in the Native Americans’ arsenal as they resisted—and today continue to oppose—colonial domination."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Lisa Brooks (Abenaki) is assistant professor of history and literature and of folklore and mythology at Harvard University.
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