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Titel

Early American Literature Book Prize for 2019

Ist Teil von

• Early American literature, 2020-01, Vol.55 (1), p.1-2

Ort / Verlag

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Project MUSE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• According to Professor Brooks’s professional and biographical statement, Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War reframes the historical landscape of “the first Indian War,” more widely known as King Philip’s War (1675–78), by focusing on the stories of Weetamoo, a female Wampanoag leader, and James Printer, a Nipmuc scholar, whose stories converge in the captivity narrative of the Puritan “mistress,” Mary Rowlandson. Drawing on tribal histories, a detailed knowledge and analysis of landscape, and underutilized written and printed sources, Our Beloved Kin ensures that, as one committee member puts it, “early American literary studies should never be the same.” In this sense, Brooks convenes us, setting “a benchmark for all later studies and an agenda for future scholars to pursue, including the neglected role of peacemaking efforts,” in the words of another committee member, not only in the later phases of the war but also among scholars working at a particularly rich and fractious contemporary moment in our field and beyond.