ETHNOLOGY AND EMPIRE: LANGUAGES, LITERATURE, AND THE MAKING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Book ID/图书代码： 14932715B80494
English Summary/英文概要： In the 19th-century, as the American frontier stretched inexorably towards the Pacific coast and conceptions about Native peoples and western spaces began to shift, the study of Native American linguistics also shifted to become both a professionalized research discipline and a popular literary concern of American culture. In Ethnology and Empire, Robert Lawrence Gunn contextualizes the developing political, scientific, and literary networks that connected ideas, languages, and Native peoples in light of westward expansionism.
Offering a literary and archival survey of the manifold practices that constituted ethnology as an intellectual enterprise in the first half of the 19th century, Gunn reveals the manner in which developing research practices became standardized and how works of fiction, travel and captivity narratives, and Native oratory and sign language gave imaginative shape to imperial activity in the western borderlands. Through a transnational archive of U.S. literary, scientific, and cultural production, Gunn emphasizes the geographical and culturally transformative impacts of western expansionism and Indian removal for future conceptions of hemispheric American literatures. By telling stories about the traffic of words and ideas in the American borderlands, Ethnology and Empire unveils the network of peoples, spaces, and communication practices that shaped and transformed the boundaries of U.S. empire.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 19世纪，当美国边境无情地朝着太平洋沿岸延伸，关于土著人和西方空间的观念开始转变，美国本土的语言学研究也将成为一个专业化的研究学科和颇受欢迎的对美国文化的文学关注。在《民族学和帝国》中，罗伯特•劳伦斯•甘恩将发展的政治，科学和文学网络放置在有关联的思想，语言和向西方扩张的土著人的背景下考虑。
提供了对多种多样的构成了民族学在19世纪上半期成为知识型企业的案例的文学和档案方面的调查，甘恩揭示了发展中的研究实践成为标准化的方式，以及小说、旅行和束缚叙述如何生效，以及本地言辞和手语如何将西部边疆的帝国活动描述为富有想象力的形状。通过美国文学，科学和文化生产的跨国档案，甘恩强调西方扩张主义和半球美国文学关于印度搬迁的未来概念的地理和文化变革的影响。通过讲述美国边境的文字和思想的交际的故事，《民族学和帝国》揭示了人民，空间和交流实践的网络塑造和改变了美国帝国的边界。（LNL）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯特•劳伦斯•甘恩是德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校的英语副教授，他专门研究十九世纪的美国文学和文化，通信和边疆文献，以及种族的语言编码。
Robert Lawrence Gunn is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he specializes in 19th-Century American literatures and cultures, contact and borderlands literatures, and the linguistic encoding of race.
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