5,876円 Leslie Marmon Silko's 1991 novel Almanac of the Dead is a profound and challenging analysis of late capitalist society in America and more widely, and the ways in which powerful minority elites ensure that their power is never challenged nor shared, through the complicit discourses of imperialism...

2,122円 Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today. In considering the c...

1,355円 The Quechan people live along the lower part of the Colorado River in the United States. According to tradition, the Quechan and other Yuman people were created at the beginning of time, and their Creation myth explains how they came into existence, the origin of their environment, and the signif...

602円 "The old pacific capital" (1882) is an account of a journey undertaken by Robert Louis Stevenson in Monterey, Mexico, in 1880. The work is written in the form of essay and in the first part describes in detail the flora and vegetation of the area, considered very impressive by the Scottish writer...

451円 Attraverso una rigorosa lettura storica e con numerosi riferimenti al cinema, al fumetto e alla letteratura, l’autore ripercorre le vicende delle guerre indiane e della conquista del West americano. L’epopea delle guerra indiane è una lucida analisi ribalta l’immagine tradizionale e gloriosa dei ...

300円 L'Impero inca fu il più vasto impero precolombiano del continente americano. La sua esistenza va dal XIII secolo fino al XVI secolo e la sua capitale fu Cuzco, nell'attuale Perù. L'autore Francesco Algarotti (Venezia, 11 dicembre 1712 – Pisa, 3 maggio 1764) è stato uno scrittore, saggista e colle...

3,317円 In the summer of 1990, the Oka Crisisーor the Kanehsatake Resistanceーexposed a rupture in the relationships between settlers and Indigenous peoples in Canada. In the wake of the failure of the Meech Lake Accord, the conflict made visible a contemporary Indigenous presence that Canadian society h...

3,310円 A murderous whirlwind, an evil child-abducting witch-woman, a masked cannibal, terrifying scalped men, a mysterious man-slaying flint creature: the oral tradition of the Caddoan Indians is alive with monsters. Whereas Western historical methods and interpretations relegate such beings to the real...

1,657円 Red Thunder is a memoir of a People. The story draws from the oral history of the Schi-tsu-umsh Indians, now called the Coeur d'Alene Tribe in Northern Idaho. This unique portrayal of pre-European Native Americans is an authentic work displaying the rich cultural teachings behind Native American ...

3,979円 In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with its own discursive and rhe...

5,831円 Inuit of northern Canada have a rich oral tradition in their ancient languages and a more recent tradition of written English. Penny Petrone traces the two paths that link the cultural past of arctic peoples with its expression in the present day. The book's first section includes traditional leg...

3,241円 Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes A...