Inscribing Sovereignties
Writing Community in Native North America
By Phillip H. Round
290 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 61 halftones, notes, bibl., index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-8069-9
Published: October 2024 -
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-8068-2
Published: October 2024 -
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Published: September 2024
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Round's broad theory of graphogenesis—creating meaningful inscription—leads to new insights for both the past and present of Indigenous expression in a range of forms. Readers will find powerful new insights into Indigenous languages and linguistic practices, with important implications not just for scholars but for those working to support ongoing Native American self-determination.
About the Author
Phillip H. Round is professor emeritus of English and Native American and Indigenous studies at the University of Iowa.
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"The scope of Round's book is impressive, and the prose is engaging, with moments of real poetry and inspiration. But its biggest payoff is to advance the comparative study of Indigenous languages and orthographies across the Western Hemisphere and around the world. Round's narrative of the history of Indigenous media can help lead researchers and Indigenous communities themselves not just to obscured histories but to inspirations for transformative practices."—Matt Cohen, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
"Round reveals how Native North Americans put material literacy practices to decolonizing ends, sustaining culture, building community, asserting tribal authority, and expressing individual experience. This book puts to rest any lingering narratives of a divide between oral and written culture as it traces a number of ways in which Indigenous peoples brought spoken languages and linguistic practices into writing and back out again, sustaining living, vibrant vernacular languages."—Laura Mielke, University of Kansas