Indigenuity - Native Craftwork & the Art of American Literatures (Paperback)

For hundreds of years, American artisanship and American authorship were entangled practices rather than distinct disciplines. Books, like other objects, were multisensory items all North American communities and cultures, including Native and settler colonial ones, regularly made and used. All cultures and communities narrated and documented their histories and imaginations through a variety of media. All created objects for domestic, sacred, curative, and collective purposes. In this innovative work at the intersection of Indigenous studies, literary studies, book history, and material culture studies, Caroline Wigginton tells a story of the interweavings of Native craftwork and American literatures from their ancient roots to the present. Focused primarily on North America, especially the colonized lands and waters now claimed by the United States, this book argues for the foundational but often-hidden aesthetic orientation of American literary history toward Native craftwork. Wigginton knits this narrative to another of Indigenous aesthetic repatriation through the making and using of books and works of material expression. Ultimately, she reveals that Native craftwork is by turns the warp and weft of American literature, interwoven throughout its long history.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Critical Indigeneities
Release date:	2023
Authors:	Caroline Wigginton
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	328
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-7037-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > Art of indigenous peoples Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4696-7037-2
Barcode:	9781469670379

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