American contact: objects of intercultural encounters and the boundaries of book history

Abstract

"American contact explores the dynamics of intercultural encounters through the medium of material texts. Its forty-eight short chapters shed new light on the material practices of communicating power and resistance, subjection and survivance, in contact zones of America from millennia in the past to the 2000s."--Back cover.

Contents

Muhammad Kabā Saghanughu's 1838 Arabic address in Jamaica / Elizabeth A. Dolan and Ahmed Idrissi Alami -- Monk on fire: imag(in)ing Buddhism in the Americas / Alexandra Kaloyanides -- Afong Moy's ephemera and the ephemerality of the early Asian American archive / Xine Yao -- Coloring outside the lines: the comic valentine as a queer and gender-variant object / Don James McLaughlin -- Lady historian, Cuban exile, and German hatter:an immigrant story of Emma Willard's Compendio de la historia de los Estados Unidos as translated by Miguel T. Tolón / Jessica C. Linker -- Chinese print in early California / Devin Fitzgerald -- A letter from nineteenth-century Afro-Brazil / Isadora Moura Mota -- Three ways of reading Protestant missionary marginalia / Sonia Hazard -- Framing colonization for Mormon youth in the Juvenile instructor (1866) / Nathan Rees -- Improvising indigenous geographies in the first atlas of Argentina, ca. 1870 / Brian Bockelman -- Proud Raven: contesting the "Lincoln pole" / Emily L. Moore -- Hides, hymns, quills, crosses: an embellished nineteenth-century Dakota-language hymnal / Daniel Radus -- Yun Ch'i-ho's diary and Asian-American encounters in the American South, 1888-1893 / Chris Suh -- Multiple literacies in Hawaiian sheet music / Amy Kuʻuleialoha Stillman -- Dime novels and the creation of the Italian immigrant criminal / Nancy Caronia -- Chauncey Yellow Robe's resistance in the early twentieth-century United States / Rachel Linnea Brown -- Cataloging Mexican history in the age of pan-Americanism / Corinna Zeltsman -- Scouting for the Victor Talking Machine Company: 1917 traveling recording ledgers from Latin America / Sergio Ospina Romero -- Making books at the penitentiary: César Vallejo's Trilce / Carlos Aguirre -- 1930s U.S. encounters with Sierra Leonean dance dramas / Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis -- Interwar Black internationalism and the creation of Unwritten history of slavery (1945) / Anne Ricculli -- Inscribing Black Atlantic religions: an Afro-Cuban libreta from Havana / Martin A. Tsang -- The circulations of a 1968 Haitian compas LP / Mathew R. Swiatlowski -- Rebecca Rubin: American Girl and American Jewish heritage / Rachel B. Gross. Introduction: The layered legibilities of intercultural encounters / Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman -- Through the medium of the land: Serpent Mound within and without Ohio / Chadwick Allen -- Writing-on-Stone and book history: recording the life-world of the Great Plains / Germaine Warkentin -- Reading and misreading an eighth-century Maya stela / Megan E. O'Neil -- The birth and life of the tlaquimilolli (sacred bundle) / Molly H. Bassett -- Indigenous fabrics of empire in the sixteenth-century northern Andes / Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez -- Alonso de Molina's grammar book in sixteenth-century Tenochtitlan / Marlena Petra Cravens -- Writing and resistance in the conquest of Mexico's wake / Barbara E. Mundy -- Intercultural encounters and the Codex Mexicanus / Lori Boornazian Diel -- Bookmaking in Tlatelolco after the apocalypse / Alex Hidalgo -- Chihoatenhwa''s prayer: a Wendat-Jesuit print encounter from seventeenth-century New France / John H. Pollack -- A Timucua epistle from seventeenth-century Florida / George Aaron Broadwell and Alejandra Dubcovsky -- A contested Pennacook object in a seventeenth-century Puritan mission / Marie Balsley Taylor -- Daniel Gookin's "Doings and sufferings" and the contradictions of the New England mission / David D. Hall and Adrian Chastain Weimer -- And their words were reduced to writing: the materiality of torture transcripts in early eighteenth-century Audiencia de Quito (Ecuador) / Agnieszka Czeblakow -- Christoph Saur's house: toward an anticolonial history of the settlement of Germantown / Bethany Wiggin -- Slaveholding, seasoning, and the circulation of culinary knowledge in the Frankland family receipt book / Marissa Nicosia -- A Jewish gravestone in eighteenth-century Charleston / Shari Rabin -- The uses and reuses of ephemeral colonial print in Black households / Maria Ryan -- A Guatemalan rulebook and the discipling of Catholic singing in the Spanish colonial world / Diane Oliva -- An eighteenth-century Quaker poem and transatlantic abolitionism / Rachael Scarborough King with Cecily Duffie, Danielle Knox, Bishop Lawton, John Henry Merritt, Gabriell Montgomery, and Maria Carolina Sintura -- Ephemeral texts in a semiliterate society: a subversive pasquinade in 1790 Caracas / Cristina Soriano -- Disparate sources of an 1800 settlement negotiation in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Rachel B. Herrmann -- Texas Mexican women and the War of Independence from Spain: memory, writing, forgetting / Raúl Coronado -- Refuting procolonial discourse in postcolonial Haitian pamphlets / Chelsea Stieber --