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Colonial Mediascapes

Name: Colonial Mediascapes
Brand: University of Nebraska Press
SKU: 9780803249998
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Contributors:

Matt Cohen (Editor), Jeffrey Glover (Editor)

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

United States, Ethnic Studies, Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

Book Topic:

Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), American

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Release Date:

2014-04-01

ISBN 13:

9780803249998

Weight:

1.34 lbs

Size:

9.09 x 6.00 x 1.05 inches

Pages:

456

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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.

About the Author
Matt Cohen is an associate professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England. Jeffrey Glover is an assistant professor of English at Loyola University Chicago and the author of Paper Sovereigns: Anglo-Native Treaties and the Law of Nations, 1604-1664.

Contributors: Ralph Bauer, Heidi Bohaker, Galen Brokaw, Jon Coleman, Jeffrey Glover, Peter Charles Hoffer, Andrew Newman, Birgit Brander Rasmussen, Richard Cullen Rath, Sarah Rivett, Gordon M. Sayre, and Germaine Warkentin.

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