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OverviewConfronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience. Focusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the beliefs and experiences of descendant communities. The Silence of the Miskito Prince argues for new ways of framing scholarly conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion, Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matt CohenPublisher: University of Minnesota Press Imprint: University of Minnesota Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781517913946ISBN 10: 1517913942 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 22 November 2022 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsReviewsI remember the bold, proud, and highfalutin terms we used to toss about in early American studies, so proud of our own 'discoveries' and 'understandings.' Because that's the model we inherited. Because we did not know any better. But now we do-thanks to Matt Cohen's rigorous and powerful remodulation of our scholarly language. This book points us in the direction of better scholarship, by which I mean greater care, awe, patience, and accountability. A model work of literary criticism for our chastened and tender times. -Joanna Brooks, author of Why We Left: Untold Stories and Songs of America's First Immigrants The Silence of the Miskito Prince is almost alchemical in its ability to draw new insights from familiar texts. Matt Cohen's work will be a model for literary scholars, and maybe even some historians, of the power of scholarship that considers the work that words can and cannot do. -Jonathan Beecher Field, Clemson University Author InformationMatt Cohen is professor of English as well as affiliate faculty in Native American studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he also codirects the Walt Whitman Archive. He has written or edited six books, including the award-winning The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (Minnesota, 2009). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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