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Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature
Gordon Brotherston
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Description for Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature
hardcover. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature. Num Pages: 494 pages. BIC Classification: DSB. Dimension: 235 x 155. Weight in Grams: 922. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own ... Read more
The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
494
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521307604
SKU
KSG0033884
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Ref
99-1
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