Winner, The Early American Literature Book PrizeEthnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas aboutwords that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoplesand western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing theemergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized researchdiscipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to theU.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner inwhich relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works offiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languagesgave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. In literary andperformative settings that range from the U.S./Mexico borderlands to the GreatLakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls oflearned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire modelsan interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communicationpractices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through atransnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformativeimpacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimaginesU.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemisphericAmerican literatures.
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Amerîca and e Long 19 Cenury General Editors Dà àzàjà, Ézàbé Mçé, à ŝçà à
Back Frankenseîn: he Makîng o an Amerîcan Meapor Ézàbé ôû
Neîer Fugîîve nor Free: Aanîc Savery, Freedom Suîs, and e Lega Cuure o Trave Éé . ô
Sadowîng e Wîe Man’s Burden: U.S. ïmperîaîsm and e Probem o e Coor Lîne géçé Mû
Bodîes o Reorm: he Reorîc o Caracer în Gîded-Age Amerîca Jàméŝ B. Śààzà
Empîre’s Proxy: Amerîcan Lîeraure and U.S. ïmperîaîsm în e Pîîppînes Mé éŝ
Sîes Unseen: Arcîecure, Race, and Amerîcan Lîeraure àm A. géàŝô