In search of first contact
Subtitle: the Vikings of Vinland, the peoples of the dawnland, and the Anglo-American anxiety of discovery
By: Annette Kolodny
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780822352822; 9780822352860
Subjects: Sagas; Literatures; Norse; Discovery and exploration; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The politics of American prehistory : isolation versus contact; title: Contact and conflict : what the Vinland sagas tell us; title: Anglo-America's Viking heritage : a nineteenth-century romance; title: The New England poets of Viking America and the emergence of the plastic Viking; title: The challenge to Columbus and the romance undone; title: "We could not discerne any token or signe, that ever any Christian had been before" : the phantom of first contact; title: Contact and conflict again : what native stories tell us.