Author: Brooks, Lisa

Price: $25.50

Category:Literature & Fiction
Publication Date:2008-10-02T00:00:01Z
Pages:352
Binding:Paperback
ISBN:10:0816647844
ISBN:13:9780816647842
Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leadersa including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant, Hendrick Aupaumut, and William Apessa adopted writing as a tool to reclaim rights and land in the Native networks of what is now the northeastern United States.