{"product_id":"colonial-mediascapes-9780803232396","title":"Colonial Mediascapes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eColonial Mediascapes\u003c\/i\u003e offers compelling insights from a veritable Who’s Who of early American literacy studies. The range of topics, the geographical diversity, and the thoughtfully developed connections between these essays makes this a particularly welcome project. This is a timely collection that will without a doubt have a major impact on a number of intersecting fields—book history, Native studies, early American studies, literacy studies.”—Hilary E. Wyss, Hargis Professor of American Literature at Auburn University and author of \u003ci\u003eEnglish Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003eForeword\u003cbr\u003ePaul Chaat Smith\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eMatt Cohen and Jeffrey Glover\u003cbr\u003ePart I. Beyond Textual Media\u003cbr\u003e1. Dead Metaphor or Working Model? “The Book” in Native America\u003cbr\u003eGermaine Warkentin\u003cbr\u003e2. Early Americanist Grammatology: Definitions of Writing and Literacy\u003cbr\u003eAndrew Newman\u003cbr\u003e3. Indigenous Histories and Archival Media in the Early Modern Great Lakes\u003cbr\u003eHeidi Bohaker\u003cbr\u003ePart II. Multimedia Texts\u003cbr\u003e4. The Manuscript, the \u003ci\u003eQuipu\u003c\/i\u003e, and the Early American Book: Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s \u003ci\u003eNueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBirgit Brander Rasmussen\u003cbr\u003e5. Semiotics, Aesthetics, and the Quechua Concept of \u003ci\u003eQuilca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGalen Brokaw\u003cbr\u003e6. “Take My Scalp, Please!”: Colonial Mimesis and the French Origins of the Mississippi Tall Tale\u003cbr\u003eGordon M. Sayre\u003cbr\u003ePart III. Sensory New Worlds\u003cbr\u003e7. Brave New Worlds: The First Century of Indian-English Encounters\u003cbr\u003ePeter Charles Hoffer\u003cbr\u003e8. Howls, Snarls, and Musket Shots: Saying “This Is Mine” in Colonial New England\u003cbr\u003eJon Coleman\u003cbr\u003e9. Hearing Wampum: The Senses, Mediation, and the Limits of Analogy\u003cbr\u003eRichard Cullen Rath\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Transatlantic Mediascapes\u003cbr\u003e10. Writing as “Khipu”: Titu Cusi Yupanqui’s Account of the Conquest of Peru\u003cbr\u003eRalph Bauer\u003cbr\u003e11. Christian Indians at War: Evangelism and Military Communication in the Anglo-French-Native Borderlands\u003cbr\u003eJeffrey Glover\u003cbr\u003e12. The Algonquian Word and the Spirit of Divine Truth: John Eliot’s Indian Library and the Atlantic Quest for a Universal Language\u003cbr\u003eSarah Rivett\u003cbr\u003eContributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405248766295,"sku":"9780803232396","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803232396.jpg?v=1730489276","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/colonial-mediascapes-9780803232396","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}