Book of the fourth world : reading the Native Americas through their literature
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Book of the fourth world : reading the Native Americas through their literature
Cambridge University Press, 1995
- : pbk
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  Iwate
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Tokyo
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 417-458) and index
First paperback edition 1995
Discription based on: digitally printed version 2009
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Book of the Fourth World offers detailed analyses of texts that range far back into the centuries of civilised life from what is now Latin- and Anglo-America. At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. In the course of just a few centuries its original inhabitants, though settled there for millennia and countable in many millions, have come to be perceived as a marginal if not entirely dispensable factor in the continent's destiny. Today the term has been taken up again by its native peoples, to describe their own world: both its threatened present condition, and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. In order to explore the literature of this world, Brotherston uses primary sources that have traditionally been ignored because they have not conformed to Western definitions of oral and written literature, such as the scrolls of the Algonkin, the knotted strings (Quipus) of the Inca, Navajo dry-paintings and the encyclopedic pages of Meso-America's screenfold books.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Prefatory notes
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: America as the fourth world
- Part I. Text: 1. Provenance
- 2. Language and its instances
- 3. Configurations of space
- 4. Configurations of time
- Part II. Political Memory: 5. Peten
- 6. Tollan
- 7. Turtle Island
- 8. Tahuantinsuyu
- Part III. Genesis: 9. Popol Vuh
- 10. World ages and metamorphosis
- 11. The epic
- 12. American cosmos
- Part IV. Into the language of America
- 13. The translation process
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations used in notes and bibliography
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index.
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