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- Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
summary
In 1663, the Puritan missionary John Eliot, with the help of a Nipmuck convert whom the English called James Printer, produced the first Bible printed in North America. It was printed not in English but in Algonquian, making it one of the first books printed in a Native language. In this ambitious and multidisciplinary work, Phillip Round examines the relationship between Native Americans and printed books over a two-hundred-year period, uncovering the individual, communal, regional, and political contexts for Native peoples' use of the printed word. From the northeastern woodlands to the Great Plains, Round argues, alphabetic literacy and printed books mattered greatly in the emergent, transitional cultural formations of indigenous nations threatened by European imperialism.
Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.
Removable Type showcases the varied ways that Native peoples produced and utilized printed texts over time, approaching them as both opportunity and threat. Surveying this rich history, Round addresses such issues as the role of white missionaries and Christian texts in the dissemination of print culture in Indian Country, the establishment of "national" publishing houses by tribes, the production and consumption of bilingual texts, the importance of copyright in establishing Native intellectual sovereignty (and the sometimes corrosive effects of reprinting thereon), and the significance of illustrations.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- 3. New and Uncommon Means
- pp. 73-96
- 6. Proprietary Authorship
- pp. 150-172
- 7. The Culture of Reprinting
- pp. 173-199
- 8. Indigenous Illustration
- pp. 200-222
- Epilogue: The View from Red Cloud’s Grave
- pp. 223-229
- Bibliography
- pp. 261-275
Additional Information
ISBN
9781469606347
Related ISBN(s)
9780807833902, 9780807871201, 9780807899472
MARC Record
OCLC
676700712
Pages
296
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No