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The Silence of the Miskito Prince - How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Paperback)
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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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