Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan: Leadership and Literature in Eighteenth-century Native America - Couverture rigide

Foreward By Robert Warrior

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0195170830 ISBN 13 : 9780195170832

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2006

Synopsis

This Indian World is the first-ever edition of collected writings by pioneering Native American religious and political leader Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). Occom's letters, sermons, journals, petitions, and hymns offer unparalleled views into eighteenth-century Native America. Essential reading for scholars of early and Native American history, literature, and religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native-American Literatures (Oxford, 2003), winner of the 2003 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for best book in African-American literature and culture. Robert Warrior is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian Literary Nationalism, and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions .

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0195170830
• ISBN 13: 9780195170832
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Brooks Joanna
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible