Dawn Durante; Deborah Gray White; Daina Ramey Berry; Melinda Chateauvert; Tiffany Gill MO - University of Illinois Press (2022) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Dawn Durante; Deborah Gray White; Daina Ramey Berry; Melinda Chateauvert; Tiffany Gill MO - University of Illinois Press (2022) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Nancy Latham; Johnna Darragh Ernst; Tiffany Freeze; Stephanie Bernoteit; Bradford White Taylor & Francis Inc (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Kovakantinen kirja
Nancy Latham; Johnna Darragh Ernst; Tiffany Freeze; Stephanie Bernoteit; Bradford White Taylor & Francis Inc (2023) Saatavuus: Tilaustuote Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Broadview Press Ltd Sivumäärä: 180 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2022, 03.11.2022 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison offers a remarkable perspective on eighteenth-century America. A white settler by birth, Mary Jemison was taken captive as a child in 1758 and adopted by two Seneca sisters. Refusing offers to return to settler society, she chose to spend the remainder of her life as a Seneca wife, mother, and respected community member. In 1823, the now-elderly Jemison shared her life story with white American writer James Seaver, who published it as a captivity narrative the following year. Conscious of the impacts of Seaver’s editorial hand, this edition foregrounds Jemison’s voice while also recentering Indigenous perspectives through an informative introduction and an illuminating selection of contextual materials.