"In Search of First Contact" is a monumental achievement by the
influential literary critic Annette Kolodny. In this book, she
offers a radically new interpretation of two medieval Icelandic
tales, known as the Vinland sagas. She contends that they are the
first known European narratives about contact with North America.
After carefully explaining the evidence for that conclusion,
Kolodny examines what happened after 1837, when English
translations of the two sagas became widely available and
enormously popular in the United States. She assesses their impact
on literature, immigration policy, and concepts of masculinity.
Kolodny considers what the sagas reveal about the Native peoples
encountered by the Norse in Vinland around the year A.D. 1000, and
she recovers Native American stories of first contacts with
Europeans, including one that has never before been shared outside
of Native communities. These stories contradict the dominant
narrative of "first contact" between Europeans and the New World.
Kolodny rethinks the lingering power of a mythic American Viking
heritage and the long-standing debate over whether Leif Eiriksson
or Christopher Columbus should be credited as the first discoverer.
With this paradigm-shattering work, Kolodny shows what literary
criticism can bring to historical and social scientific
endeavors.
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