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Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation (Oxford Studies in American Literary History)
Unscripted America Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation - Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Author: Sarah Rivett
In 1664, French Jesuit Louis Nicolas arrived in Quebec. Upon first hearing Ojibwe, Nicolas observed that he had encountered the most barbaric language in the world--but after listening to and studying approximately fifteen Algonquian languages over a ten-year period, he wrote that he had "discovered all of the secrets of the most beautiful langu...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780190492564
ISBN-10: 0190492562
Publication Date: 11/17/2017
Pages: 400
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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