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William Bradford, a leader among the Pilgrims, carefully recorded
the voyage of the Mayflower and the daily life of Plymouth Colony
in a work--part journal, part history--he titled Of Plimoth
Plantation. This remarkable document is the authoritative chronicle
of the Pilgrims' experiences as well as a powerful testament to the
cultural and literary exchange that existed between the newly
arrived Europeans and the Native Americans who were their neighbors
and friends. It is well-documented that Native Americans lived
within the confines of Plymouth Colony, and for a time Bradford
shared a house with Tisquantum (Squanto), a Patuxet warrior and
medicine man. In Bradford's Indian Book, Betty Booth Donohue traces
the physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional, and
theological interactions between New England's Native peoples and
the European newcomers as manifested in the literary record.
Donohue identifies American Indian poetics and rhetorical
strategies as well as Native intellectual and ceremonial traditions
present in the text. She also draws on ethnohistorical scholarship,
consultation with tribal intellectuals, and her own experiences to
examine the ways Bradford incorporated Native American philosophy
and culture into his writing. Bradford's Indian Book promises to
reshape and re-energize our understanding of standard canonical
texts, reframing them within the intellectual and cultural
traditions indigenous to the continent. Written partly in the
Cherokee syllabary to express pan-Indian concepts that do not
translate well to English, Donohue's invigorating, provocative
analysis demonstrates how indigenous oral and thought traditions
have influenced American literature from the very beginning down to
the present day.
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