Cherokee Sister : The Collected Writings of Catharine Brown, 1818-1823 (Legacies of Nineteenth-century American Women Writers)

Brown, Catharine/ Gaul, Theresa Strouth (EDT)

University of Nebraska Press（2014/01発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780803240759
• DDC分類 897.5578

Full Description

Catharine Brown (1800?-1823) became Brainerd Mission School's first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missionary organization that had educated and later employed Brown commissioned a posthumous biography, Memoir of Catharine Brown, which  enjoyed widespread contemporary popularity and praise.

In the following decade, her writings, along with those of other educated Cherokees, became highly politicized and were used in debates about the removal of the Cherokees and other tribes to Indian Territory. Although she was once viewed by literary critics as a docile and dominated victim of missionaries who represented the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, adaptability, and leadership.
In Cherokee Sister Theresa Strouth Gaul collects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her. This edition of Brown's collected works and related materials firmly establishes her place in early nineteenth-century culture and her influence on American perceptions of Native Americans.

Contents

List of Illustrations 000Acknowledgments 000Statement of Editorial Method 000List of Abbreviations 000Editor's Introduction 000 "My beloved people": Early Life and Cherokee Contexts 000 "The dear missionaries": Education, Conversion, and Missionary Contexts 000 "A means of great good to our people": Interpreter and Teacher 000 Brown's Writings 000 "With pleasure I spend a few moments in writing to you": Brown's Letters 000 "I jest sit down to address you with my pen": The Rhetorics of Brown's Letters 000 "O painful is it to record": Brown's Diary 000 Other Textual Representations 000 Memoir of Catharine Brown 000 Part 1. Collected Writings, 1818-1823Letters 000Diary 000 Part 2. Nineteenth-Century Representations of Catharine BrownCatharine Brown, the Converted Cherokee: A Missionary Drama, Founded on Fact (1819) 000 A Lady of ConnecticutExcerpt from Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822) 000 Lydia Sigourney"Inscription: For the Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) 000 Anonymous"The Grave of Catharine Brown" (1825) 000 H.S.Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation (1825) 000 Rufus Anderson Source Acknowledgments 000Notes 000Works Cited 000