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The Silence of the Miskito Prince: About the Author

The Silence of the Miskito Prince
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“About the Author” in “The Silence of the Miskito Prince”

About the Author

Matt Cohen is professor of English at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is author of The Networked Wilderness: Communicating in Early New England (Minnesota, 2009) and Whitman’s Drift: Imagining Literary Distribution.

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The University of Minnesota Press gratefully acknowledges the financial assistance provided for the publication of this book by the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Portions of the Introduction and chapter 5 are adapted from “‘Between Friends and Enemies’: Moving Books and Locating Native Critique in Early Colonial America,” in The World, the Text, and the Indian: Global Dimensions of Native American Literature, ed. Scott Richard Lyons, 103–27 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017). Portions of chapter 2 are adapted from “Believing in Piety: Spiritual Transformation across Cultures in Early New England,” in Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas, ed. Stephanie Kirk and Sarah Rivett, 161–79 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014). Portions of chapter 5 are adapted from the author’s review of Eloquence Embodied: Nonverbal Communication among French and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas by Celine Carayon, NAIS 8, no 1 (2021): 198–200.

Excerpts from “In Mystic,” from Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poem , by Joy Harjo, copyright 2015 by Joy Harjo. Reprinted by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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