Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery

Narratives of Encounter

Michael Householder (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26595-0 (ISBN)

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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 unusual circumstances of encounter. Arranged chronologically, the texts examined include John Mandeville's Travels, Richard Eden's English-language translations of the accounts of Spanish and Portuguese discovery and conquest, George Best's account of Martin Frobisher's voyages to northern Canada, Ralph Lane's account of the abandonment of Roanoke, John Smith's writings about Virginia, and John Underhill's account of the Pequot War. Through his analysis, Householder reveals that English colonists did not share a universal, homogenous view of indigenous Americans as savages, but that the writers, confronted by unfamiliar peoples and situations, resorted to a mixed array of cultural beliefs, myths, and theories to put together workable explanations of their experiences, which then became the basis for how Europeans in the colonies began transforming themselves into Americans.

Michael Householder is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.

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;

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-138-26595-0 / 1138265950
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26595-0 / 9781138265950
Zustand	Neuware