The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized

Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies

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, The Silence of the Miskito Prince explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagin...