{"product_id":"9781479842582","title":"Ethnology and Empire : Languages, Literature, and the Making of the North American Borderlands (America and the Long 19th Century)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner, The Early American Literature Book Prize\n\u003cbr\u003e Ethnology and Empire tells stories about words and ideas, and ideas about\n\u003cbr\u003e words that developed in concert with shifting conceptions about Native peoples\n\u003cbr\u003e and western spaces in the nineteenth-century United States. Contextualizing the\n\u003cbr\u003e emergence of Native American linguistics as both a professionalized research\n\u003cbr\u003e discipline and as popular literary concern of American culture prior to the\n\u003cbr\u003e U.S.-Mexico War, Robert Lawrence Gunn reveals the manner in\n\u003cbr\u003e which relays between the developing research practices of ethnology, works of\n\u003cbr\u003e fiction, autobiography, travel narratives, Native oratory, and sign languages\n\u003cbr\u003e gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. \n\u003cbr\u003e \n\u003cbr\u003e In literary and\n\u003cbr\u003e performative settings that range from the U.S.\/Mexico borderlands to the Great\n\u003cbr\u003e Lakes region of Tecumseh's Pan-Indian Confederacy and the hallowed halls of\n\u003cbr\u003e learned societies in New York and Philadelphia, Ethnology and Empire models\n\u003cbr\u003e an interdisciplinary approach to networks of peoples, spaces, and communication\n\u003cbr\u003e practices that transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire through a\n\u003cbr\u003e transnational and scientific archive. Emphasizing the culturally transformative\n\u003cbr\u003e impacts western expansionism and Indian Removal, Ethnology and Empire reimagines\n\u003cbr\u003e U.S. literary and cultural production for future conceptions of hemispheric\n\u003cbr\u003e American literatures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48942003912939,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":195.93,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781479842582-1.jpg?v=1783110189","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/products\/9781479842582","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}