Queequeg's Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Book

Contents

Acknowledgments....................xi
INTRODUCTION. "A NEW WORLD STILL IN THE MAKING"....................1
1 WRITING AND COLONIAL CONFLICT....................17
2 NEGOTIATING PEACE, NEGOTIATING LITERACIES The Undetermined Encounter and Early American Literature....................49
3 WRITING IN THE CONFLICT ZONE Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno....................79
4 INDIGENOUS LITERACIES, MOBY-DICK, AND THE PROMISE OF QUEEQUEG'S COFFIN....................111
Afterword....................139
Notes....................145
Works Cited....................185
Index....................201