The Collected Writings of Samson Occom, Mohegan

by Samson Occom, Joanna Brooks (Editor), Robert Warrior (Foreword by)

Overview

This is the first-ever edition of collected writings by pioneering Native American religious and political leader Samson Occom (Mohegan; 1723-1792). Essential reading for scholars of early and Native American history, literature, and religion, this volume of Occom's letters, sermons, journals, petitions, and hymns offers unparalleled views into eighteenth-century Native America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195346886
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	11/09/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Joanna Brooks is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native-American Literatures (Oxford, 2003), winner of the 2003 Modern Language Association William Sanders Scarborough Prize for best book in African-American literature and culture. Robert Warrior is Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. His books include The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction, American Indian Literary Nationalism, and Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions .

Editorial Reviews

"Brooks's excellent collection is an indispensable addition to all New England, Colonial history, and Native American collections. Essential."—R. Berleant-Schiller, CHOICE

"Provides a detailed view of the man and his work. Besides its obvious historical value, the collection provides considerable insight into the life and character of an extraordinary human being."-New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century

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