1st Edition
Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery Narratives of Encounter
By Michael Householder
Copyright 2011
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery traces the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming the identities or characters that permitted Europeans (English speakers, primarily) to adapt to the... Read more
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;
Biography
Michael Householder is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.
'... [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
