Kris Fresonke
DESCRIPTION
Where did American literature
start? The familiar story of Emerson and Thoreau has them setting up shop in
Concord, Massachusetts, and determining the course of American writing. West
of Emerson overhauls this story of origins as it shifts the context for these
literary giants from the civilized East to the wide-open spaces of the Louisiana
Purchase. Kris Fresonke tracks down the texts by explorers of the far West that
informed Nature, Emerson's most famous essay, and proceeds to uncover the parodic
Western politics at play in classic New England works of Romanticism. Westerns,
this book shows, helped create "Easterns."
West of Emerson roughs up genteel literary history: Fresonke argues for a fresh
mix of American literature, one based on the far reaches of American territory
and American literary endeavor. Reading into the record the unexplored writings
of Lewis and Clark, Zebulon Pike, Stephen Long, and William Emory, Fresonke
forges surprising connections between the American West and the American visions
emanating from the neighborhood of Walden Pond. These connections open a new
view of the politics--and, by way of the notion of "design," the theological
lineage--of manifest destiny. Finally, Fresonke's book shows how the cast of
the American canon, no less than the direction of American politics, came to
depend on what design one placed on the continent.
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Natural Causes: The Journals of Lewis and Clark
2. Zebulon Pike, Federalist Gloom, and Western Lands
3. The Land without Qualities: Stephen Long and William Emory
4. Emerson's 1830s
5. Emerson's Nature: West of Ecstasy
6. Thoreau and the Design of Dissent
Epilogue: The Case against the Hamptons
Notes
Bibliography
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kris Fresonke is Assistant Professor of English at Adelphi University.
Publication Date: December 2002
241 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 12 line illustrations; 1 b/w photograph
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Edited by William Frawley, Kenneth Hill, and Pamela Munro
DESCRIPTION
Many indigenous American languages face imminent extinction, and the dictionary, often the only written documentation of these languages, stands as a powerful tool in preserving them. These essays, written by leading scholars in Native American language studies, provide a comprehensive picture of the theory and practice of Native American lexicography. The contributors discuss the technical, social, and personal challenges involved with the complex task of creating a dictionary of a Native American language. The book is also the first of its kind to address both standard and new issues surrounding the challenging task of transforming oral languages in general into written dictionaries. Making Dictionaries will be an invaluable source for those involved with all aspects of documenting and understanding endangered languages and for the increasing number of native communities engaged in language reclamation and preservation efforts.
CONTENTS
I. FORM
AND MEANING IN THE DICTIONARY
1. Theoretical and Universal Implications of Certain Verbal Entries in Dictionaries
of
the Misumalpa Languages
Ken Hale and Danilo Salamanca
2. Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography: The Cherokee-English Dictionary
William Pulte and Durbin Feeling
3. Lexical Fuctions as a Heuristic for Huichol
Joseph E. Grimes
4. Entries for Verbs in American Indian Language Lexicography
Pamela Munro
5. Multiple Assertions, Grammatical Constructions, Lexical Pragmatics, and the
Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottowa Dictionary
Richard A. Rhodes
II. ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY IN INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES
6. Issues of Standardization and Community in Aboriginal Language Lexicography
Keren Rice and Leslie Saxon
7. A Dictionary for Whom? Tensions between Academic and Nonacademic Functions
of Bilingual Dictionaries
Leanne Hinton and William F. Weigel
8. Language Renewal and the Technologies of Literacy and Postliteracy: Reflections
from Western Mono
Paul V. Kroskrity
III. TECHNOLOGY AND DICTIONARY DESIGN
9. An Interactive Dictionary and Text Corpus for Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century
Nahuatl
Una Canger
10. What's in a Word? The Whys and What Fors of a Nahuatl Dictionary
Jonathan D. Amith
11. The Comparative Siouan Dictionary
David S. Rood and John E. Koontz
IV. SPECIFIC PROJECTS AND PERSONAL ACCOUNTS
12. Writing a Nez Perce Dictionary
Haruo Aoki
13. On Publishing the Hopi Dictionary
Kenneth C. Hill
14. Writing a User-Friendly Dictionary
Catherine A. Callaghan
15. The NAPUS (Native American Placenames of the United States) Project: Principles
and Problems
William Bright
16. Alonso de Molina as Lexicographer
Mary L. Clayton and R. Joe Campbell
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
ABOUT THE EDITORS
William Frawley is Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Science at George
Washington University, where he is also Professor of Anthropology and Psychology.
Prior to that he was Professor and Chair in the Department of Linguistics and
Director of Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware, where he was also
Faculty Director for Academic Programs and Planning and Director of the University's
Office of Undergraduate Studies. His previous books include Vygotsky and Cognitive
Science: Language and the Unification of the Social and Computational Mind (1997).
Kenneth Hill is Research Associate in the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology
and in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. His previous
publications include Hopi Dictionary/Hoìikwa Lavytutuveni: A Hopi-English
Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect (1998), for which he was editor-in-chief.
Pamela Munro is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California, Los
Angeles. She is coauthor of Chickasaw: An Analytic Dictionary (1994), among
other publications.
Publication
Date: October 2002
455 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 28 line illustrations, 20 tables
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Virginia Scharff
"Virginia Scharff claims for women what
has long been central to the masculine mythology of the West--free movement
and its many gifts, real and imagined. Her book is as exhilarating and as intellectually
and emotionally expansive as our enduring dream of flight across the American
land."--Elliott West, author of The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers,
& the Rush to Colorado
DESCRIPTION
From Sacagawea's travels with Lewis and Clark to rock groupie Pamela Des Barres's
California trips, women have moved across the American West with profound consequences
for the people and places they encounter. Virginia Scharff revisits a grand
theme of United States history--our restless, relentless westward movement--but
sets out in new directions, following women's trails from the early nineteenth
to the late twentieth centuries. In colorful, spirited stories, she weaves a
lyrical reconsideration of the processes that created, gave meaning to, and
ultimately shattered the West.
Twenty Thousand Roads introduces a cast of women mapping the world on their
own terms, often crossing political and cultural boundaries defined by male-dominated
institutions and perceptions. Scharff examines the faint traces left by Sacagawea
and revisits Susan Magoffin's famed honeymoon journey down the Santa Fe Trail.
We also meet educated women like historian Grace Hebard and government extension
agent Fabiola Cabeza de Baca, who mapped the West with different voyages and
visions. Scharff introduces women whose lives gave shape to the forces of gender,
race, region, and modernity; participants in exploration, war, politics, empire,
and struggles for social justice; and movers and shakers of everyday family
life.
This book powerfully and poetically shows us that to understand the American
West, we must examine the lives of women who both built and resisted American
expansion. Scharff remaps western history as she reveals how moving women have
shaped our past, present, and future.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Before the West
1. Seeking Sacagawea
2. The Hearth of Darkness: Susan Magoffin on Suspect Terrain
Part Two: In the West
3. Empire, Liberty, and Legend: The Ironies of Woman Suffrage in Wyoming
4. Marking Wyoming: Grace Raymond Hebard and the West as Woman's Place
5. "So Many Miles to a Person": Fabiola Cabeza de Baca Makes New Mexico
Part Three: Beyond the West
6. Resisting Arrest: Jo Ann Robinson and the Power to Move
7. The Long Strange Trip of Pamela Des Barres
8. They Paved Paradise
Notes
Index
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Virginia Scharff is Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. She
is author of Bad Company (2002), Brown-Eyed Girl (2000), Coming of Age: America
in the Twentieth Century (1998, with Michael Schaller and Robert Schulzinger),
Present Tense: The United States since 1945 (1996, with Michael Schaller and
Robert Schulzinger), and Taking the Wheel: Women and the Coming of the Motor
Age (1991).
Publication Date: December 2002
266 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 7 maps
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DESCRIPTION
Charles Montgomery's compelling narrative traces the history of the
upper Rio Grande's modern Spanish heritage, showing how Anglos and
Hispanos sought to redefine the region's social character by glorifying its
Spanish colonial past. This readable book demonstrates that northern New
Mexico's twentieth-century Spanish heritage owes as much to the coming
of the Santa Fe Railroad in 1880 as to the first Spanish colonial campaign
of 1598. As the railroad brought capital and migrants into the region,
Anglos posed an unprecedented challenge to Hispano wealth and political
power. Yet unlike their counterparts in California and Texas, the Anglo
newcomers could not wholly displace their Spanish-speaking rivals. Nor
could they segregate themselves or the upper Rio Grande from the image,
well-known throughout the Southwest, of the disreputable Mexican.
Instead, prominent Anglos and Hispanos found common cause in
transcending the region's Mexican character. Turning to colonial symbols
of the conquistador, the Franciscan missionary, and the humble Spanish
settler, they recast northern New Mexico and its people.
CONTENTS
List of Maps
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Hispano Fortunes in New Mexico, 1598-1900
2. The Race Issue and the "Spanish-American" in Party Politics,
1900-1920
3. Mission Architecture and Colonial Civility, 1904-1920
4. Discovering "Spanish Culture" at the Santa Fe Fiesta, 1919-1936
5. The Revival of Spanish Colonial Arts, 1924-1936
6. Regionalism and the Literature of the Soil, 1928-1938
Conclusion: The Coronado Cuarto Centennial and the Depletion of
Spanish Heritage
Notes
Bibliography
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Charles Montgomery is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida.
Publication Date:
March 2002
Subjects:
History; United States History; Latino Studies; California & the
West
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Ronald Niezen
With contributions by
Kim Burgess, Manley Begay, Phyllis Fast, Valerie Long
Lambert, Michael Wilcox, Bernard Perley
Spirit Wars is an exploration of the ways in which the destruction of spiritual
practices and beliefs of native peoples in North America has led to conditions
of
collective suffering--a process sometimes referred to as cultural genocide.
Ronald
Niezen approaches this topic through wide-ranging case studies involving different
colonial powers and state governments: the seventeenth-century Spanish occupation
of
the Southwest, the colonization of the Northeast by the French and British,
nineteenth-century westward expansion and nationalism in the swelling United
States
and Canada, and twentieth-century struggles for native people's spiritual integrity
and
freedom. Each chapter deals with a specific dimension of the relationship between
native peoples and non-native institutions, and together these topics yield
a new
understanding of the forces directed against the underpinnings of native cultures.
Ronald Niezen is Research Scholar in the History Department, University of
Winnipeg, and is currently engaged in field research with the Pimicikamak Cree
Nation.
He has worked with a number of native communities in northern Canada and has
served
as a delegate to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Publication Date:
July 2000
218 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 15 b/w illustrations.
Subjects:
Religion; Cultural Anthropology; Native American Studies; Religion;
American Studies; Anthropology
Rights:
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October 14, 2002