Ethnology and Empire

Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

Av Robert Lawrence Gunn, Robert Lawrence Gunn

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Winner, The Early American Literature Book PrizeEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to theU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner inwhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works offiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languagesgave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. In literary andperformative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the GreatLakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls oflearned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire modelsan interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communicationpractices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through atransnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformativeimpacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimaginesU.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemisphericAmerican literatures.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-10-16
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAmerica and the Long 19th Century
Antal sidor304
FörlagNew York University Press
ISBN9781479849055

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1 Philologies of Race: Ethnological Linguistics and Novelistic Representation 17 2 Empire, Sign Languages, and the Long Expedition, 1819-1821 52 3 John Dunn Hunter, Tecumseh, and the Linguistic Politics of Pan-Indianism 83 4 Connecting Borderlands: Native Networks and the Fredonian Rebellion 114 5 John Russell Bartlett's Literary Borderlands: Ethnology, the U.S-Mexico War, and the United States Boundary Survey 145 Indian Passports 177 Notes 187 Index 229 About the Author 242

"A superb work. Summing Up: Highly recommended." (Choice) "Ethnology and Empire demonstrates the power and flexibility of postmodern approaches to the study of colonial relationships." (American Quarterly) "An original, beautifully written book on the rapidly changing ideas about language in American culture during the early nineteenth century. Ethnology and Empireengages the social history of the borderlands and linguistics to introduce a new way of looking at the formation of ideas about race and ethnography in the antebellum period. A fascinating read." - Kirsten Silva Gruesz,author of Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing "Through masterful engagement with nineteenth century literary production and ethnology, Robert Gunn underscores how the cultural work of linguistic contact is vital to our understanding of the ideologies of empire that slowly gained force in the evolving U.S. nation-state.Ethnology and Empiremakes a significant contribution in the hemispheric turn in American studies, threading together little-known histories that advance the field and push our thinking about borderlands in innovative ways." - Robert David Aguirre,author of Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture