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Lädt ... Indians and English (2000)von Karen Ordahl Kupperman
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. In Indians and English: Facing Off in Early America, Karen Ordahl Kupperman argues, “Early encounters provoked a complex and varied series of reactions, and these were recorded in a mountain of sources, which tell the careful reader much about the reactions of everyone involved in these confrontations” (pg. 1). She writes, “English who actually spent time with Americans and tried to understand what American associates told them about their history, religious beliefs, and cultural practices exhibited a range of responses – within a single brief book writers could be contemptuous and admiring, hostile and friendly, self-confident and terrified – and it is the scope and complexity of these reactions that this book seeks to elucidate” (pg. x). She further writes of these writings, “This literature, regardless of its source, shares several characteristics: it sought to tell people at home about America and why it was important for England to be involved there; and it tried desperately to make readers in England understand how difficult it was to establish thriving settlements. The American natives were central to both themes” (pg. 3). Kupperman cautions, “It is important to realize that, just as the Americans and their culture are remote and foreign to us, so the English are as well. It is a mistake to think that we can easily and directly understand the minds of English actors” (pg. 11). Further, “The Indian experience of colonialism was in many ways the mirror image of the English. Strong native leaders, looking at the pathetic early plantations, understood that the English were utterly dependent and therefore controllable” (pg. 13). She concludes, “As recent work on the postcolonial world has reminded us, all documents of colonialism are the result of dialogue, and the voice of the colonized is always there, shaping and focusing the statement despite the writers’ own determination to control the story” (pg. 15). ( ) Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In this vividly written book, prize-winning author Karen Ordahl Kupperman refocuses our understanding of encounters between English venturers and Algonquians all along the East Coast of North America in the early years of contact and settlement. All parties in these dramas were uncertain--hopeful and fearful--about the opportunity and challenge presented by new realities. Indians and English both believed they could control the developing relationship. Each group was curious about the other, and interpreted through their own standards and traditions. At the same time both came from societies in the process of unsettling change and hoped to derive important lessons by studying a profoundly different culture.These meetings and early relationships are recorded in a wide variety of sources. Native people maintained oral traditions about the encounters, and these were written down by English recorders at the time of contact and since; many are maintained to this day. English venturers, desperate to make readers at home understand how difficult and potentially rewarding their enterprise was, wrote constantly of their own experiences and observations and transmitted native lore. Kupperman analyzes all these sources in order to understand the true nature of these early years, when English venturers were so fearful and dependent on native aid and the shape of the future was uncertain.Building on the research in her highly regarded book Settling with the Indians, Kupperman argues convincingly that we must see both Indians and English as active participants in this unfolding drama. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)973.2History and Geography North America United States Colonial period (1607-1775)Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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