Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas Through Their Literature

by Gordon Brotherston

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521314933
• ISBN13: 9780521314930
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"