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Unscripted America - Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation (Paperback)
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Unscripted America - Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
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In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first
hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most
barbaric language in the world-but after listening to and studying
approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period,
he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most
beautiful languages in the universe." Unscripted America is a study
of how colonists in North America struggled to understand,
translate, and interpret Native American languages, and the
significance of these languages for theological and cosmological
issues such as the origins of Amerindian populations, their
relationship to Eurasian and Biblical peoples, and the origins of
language itself. Through a close analysis of previously overlooked
texts, Unscripted America places American Indian languages within
transatlantic intellectual history, while also demonstrating how
American letters emerged in the 1810s through 1830s via a complex
and hitherto unexplored engagement with the legacies and aesthetic
possibilities of indigenous words. Unscripted America contends that
what scholars have more traditionally understood through the
Romantic ideology of the noble savage, a vessel of antiquity among
dying populations, was in fact a palimpsest of still-living
indigenous populations whose presence in American literature
remains traceable through words. By examining the foundation of the
literary nation through language, writing, and literacy, Unscripted
America revisits common conceptions regarding "early america" and
its origins to demonstrate how the understanding of America
developed out of a steadfast connection to American Indians, both
past and present.
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