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The Silence of the Miskito Prince - How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Hardcover)
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The Silence of the Miskito Prince - How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Hardcover)
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Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary
for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial
histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within
humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial
domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication
from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence
of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically
at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the
challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding,
cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience. Focusing on the
first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen
traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged
from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a
series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a
new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the
intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a
historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of
complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the
beliefs and experiences of descendant communities. The Silence of
the Miskito Prince argues for new ways of framing scholarly
conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking
about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial
histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion,
Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of
scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts.
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