The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

by Lisa Brooks

Book Overview

Illuminates the significance of writing to colonial-era Native American resistance

Literary critics frequently portray early Native American writers either as individuals caught between two worlds or as subjects who, even as they defied the colonial world, struggled to exist within it. In striking counterpoint to these analyses, Lisa Brooks demonstrates the ways in which Native leaders--including Samson Occom, Joseph Brant,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647844
• ISBN13: 9780816647842
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"