Contents v
Preface, xxxvii
3 The Literature of the New World
Introduction
3 The Discoveries of America
4 Native American Literature: First Encounters
6 How the New World Became America
8 A Literature of Experience
10 America and the Pastoral Ideal
11 Survival and Rebirth
12 Toward a Pluralistic Culture
14 Native American Narratives
15 A BERING STRAIT ESKIMO CREATION ACCOUNT
15 The Time When There were No people on the Earth Plain
17 SENECA ACCOUNT
18 The Story-Telling Stone
21 Cultural Portfolio: The European Conquest of America
22 [A Skirmish with the Skraelings]
23 ANONYMOUS
The Saga of the Greenlanders (Translated by Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson)
25 [Rape in the Virgin Islands]
26 MICHELE DE CUNEO
Michele de Cuneo's Letter on Columbus's Second Voyage (Translated by Elissa Weaver)