Red ink
Subtitle: native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period
By: Drew Lopenzina
Series: Native traces
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781438439792
Subjects: Indian authors; Indians of North America; Intellectual life; History and criticism; American literature; Indians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: surivial writing: contesting the pen and ink work of colonialism; title: Wussuckwheke or the painted letter: glimpses of native signification acknowledged and unwitnessed (1492-1643); title: Praying Indians, printing devils: centers of indigeniety within colonial containments (1643-1665); title: King Philip's signature: ascribing Philip's name to land, war and history in native New England (1660-1709); title: Beneath the wave: the maintenance of native tradition in hidden transcripts (1709-1768); title: A tale of two settlements; Mohican, Mohegan and the road to Brotherton (1724-1785); title: Afterword: O' Brotherton where art thou.