English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 175-183

Contents

C o n t e n t s Preface ix Introduction: Technologies of Literacy 1 1. Narratives and Counternarratives: Producing Readerly Indians in Eighteenth-Century New England 33 2. The Writerly Worlds of Joseph Johnson 74 3. Brainerd’s Missionary Legacy: Death and the Writing of Cherokee Salvation 109 4. The Foreign Mission School and the Writerly Indian 150 After Words: Native Literacy and Autonomy 190 Notes 211 Works Cited 231 Index 243 Acknowledgments 249 This page intentionally left blank ...