Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures by Wisecup, Kelly

Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures

A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks...
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Author: Kelly Wisecup
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Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures by Wisecup, Kelly

Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures

$151.00

Assembled for Use: Indigenous Compilation and the Archives of Early Native American Literatures

$151.00
Author: Kelly Wisecup
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
A wide-ranging, multidisciplinary look at Native American literature through non-narrative texts like lists, albums, recipes, and scrapbooks

"An intricate history of Native textual production, use, and circulation that reshapes how we think about relationships between Native materials and settler-colonial collections."--Rose Miron, D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the Newberry Library

Kelly Wisecup offers a sweeping account of early Native American literatures by examining Indigenous compilations: intentionally assembled texts that Native people made by juxtaposing and recontextualizing textual excerpts into new relations and meanings. Experiments in reading and recirculation, Indigenous compilations include Mohegan minister Samson Occom's medicinal recipes, the Ojibwe woman Charlotte Johnston's poetry scrapbooks, and Abenaki leader Joseph Laurent's vocabulary lists. Indigenous compilations proliferated in a period of colonial archive making, and Native writers used compilations to remake the very forms that defined their bodies, belongings, and words as ethnographic evidence. This study enables new understandings of canonical Native writers like William Apess, prominent settler collectors like Thomas Jefferson and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, and Native people who contributed to compilations but remain absent from literary histories. Long before current conversations about decolonizing archives and museums, Native writers made and circulated compilations to critique colonial archives and foster relations within Indigenous communities.

Author: Kelly Wisecup
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780300243284

About the Author
Kelly Wisecup is associate professor of English at Northwestern University. She is the author of Medical Encounters: Knowledge and Identity in Early American Literatures and editor of "Good News from New England" by Edward Winslow: A Scholarly Edition. She lives in Chicago, IL.

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