{"product_id":"cherokee-sister-9780803240759","title":"Cherokee Sister","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCherokee Sister\u003c\/i\u003e perfectly captures what a scholastic collection of archival papers should be.\"—Joshua M. Rice, \u003ci\u003eGreat Plains Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCherokee Sister\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential intervention into, and addition to, the canon of nineteenth-century American Indian writers. The introductory essay is exemplary, serving not only as a recalibration of Brown's importance but also as a field- defining treatise on how we should approach nineteenth- century Native writing in general.\"—Bethany Schneider, \u003ci\u003eLegacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eCherokee Sister: The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823\u003c\/i\u003e offers to Americanists and Native Americanists alike a versatile collection of perhaps the earliest published Native American woman author in the United States. . . . \u003ci\u003eCherokee Sister\u003c\/i\u003e's ability to speak to so many interconnected contexts and issues will service a range of college classrooms toward a more nuanced understanding of the complexities of agency and adaptation in nineteenth-century Native American literatures.\"—Michael P. Taylor, \u003ci\u003eEarly American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations   000Acknowledgments   000Statement of Editorial Method 000List of Abbreviations   000Editor’s Introduction   000      “My beloved people”: Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 000      “The dear missionaries”: Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 000      “A means of great good to our people”: Interpreter and Teacher    000      Brown’s Writings  000            “With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you”: Brown’s              Letters     000            “I jest sit down to address you with my pen”: The Rhetorics of                Brown’s Letters   000            “O painful is it to record”: Brown’s Diary      000            Other Textual Representations 000            Memoir of Catharine Brown     000 Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823Letters     000Diary 000 Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine BrownCatharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 000\u003cbr\u003e      A Lady of ConnecticutExcerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822)     000      Lydia Sigourney“Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown” (1825)      000      Anonymous“The Grave of Catharine Brown” (1825)     000      H.S.Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825)   000      Rufus Anderson Source Acknowledgments  000Notes 000Works Cited 000","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405254271319,"sku":"9780803240759","price":28.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803240759.jpg?v=1730489297","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/cherokee-sister-9780803240759","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}