Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery: Narratives of Encounter

ISBN-13: 9781138265950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 240 str.

Michael Householder

Opis

Through an in-depth analysis of writings by John Mandeville, Richard Eden, George Best, Ralph Lane, John Smith and John Underhill, this study traces the selection, combination, adaptation and invention of rhetorical strategies that English-speaking Europeans used to make sense of their encounters with the Americas. The author explores how these rhetorical strategies enabled European colonists to form new ways of understanding themselves and their relationship to the indigenous inhabitants.

Recenzje

'... [Householder] argues that the actions of native peoples, in a number of settings, helped to produce the anxieties expressed in these texts. This is an admirable and valuable task...' American Historical Review

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1 Narrating Encounter; Chapter 2 Translation, Compilation, and Triangulation; Chapter 3 Evolutions of Racial Discourse; Chapter 4 Bruites and Conspiracies; Chapter 5 “[Yet hee so demeaned himselfe”; Chapter 6 Terror and Tears in New England; Chapter 101 Conclusion;

O autorze

Michael Householder is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.