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Answering Chief Seattle

Name: Answering Chief Seattle
Brand: University of Washington Press
SKU: 9780295976334
Price: 10708 HUF
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Szerző: Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle

Nyelv:

Kötés: Puha kötésű

Kiadó: University of Washington Press

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Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into man...

Információk a könyvről

Szerző

Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Puha kötésű

Kiadva

1997

oldal

192

EAN

9780295976334

ISBN

0295976330

Enbook ID

04874287

Kiadó

University of Washington Press

Súly

250

Méretek

215 x 142 x 16

Teljes leírás

Over the years, Chief Seattle's famous speech has been embellished, popularized, and carved into many a monument, but its origins have remained inadequately explained. Understood as a symbolic encounter between indigenous America, represented by Chief Seattle, and industrialized or imperialist America, represented by Isaac I. Stevens, the first governor of Washington Territory, it was first ppublished in a Seattle newspaper in 1887 by a pioneer who claimed he had heard Seattle (or Sealth) deliver it in the 1850s. No other record of the speech has been found, and Isaac Stevens's writings do not mention it. Yet it has long been taken seriously as evidence of a voice crying out of the wilderness of the American past. Answering Chief Seattle presents the full and accurate text of the 1887 version and traces the distortions of later versions in order to explain the many layers of its mystery. This book also asks how the speech could be heard and answered, by reviewing its many contexts. Mid-century ideas about land, newcomers, ancestors, and future generations informed the ways Stevens and his contemporaries understood Chief Seattle and recreated him as a legenday figure.