{"product_id":"the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince-how-cultural-dialogue-was-colonized-paperback","title":"The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMatt Cohen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Miskito Prince\u003c\/i\u003e explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience. \u003cp\u003eFocusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the beliefs and experiences of descendant communities. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Miskito Prince\u003c\/i\u003e argues for new ways of framing scholarly conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion, Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatt Cohen is professor of English as well as affiliate faculty in Native American studies at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he also codirects the Walt Whitman Archive. He has written or edited six books, including the award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England\u003c\/i\u003e (Minnesota, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47461854609586,"sku":"9781517913953","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ce089a19356af5cf9b3af7c1afca647a.webp?v=1778956746","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince-how-cultural-dialogue-was-colonized-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}