"Why We Left reveals the dislocation, violence, and deforestation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, offering a powerful restorying of the journey to our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, Joanna Brooks shares a scholarly and personal account of the intergenerational traumas that shape the history of white Anglos on Turtle Island"--
"Why We Left reveals the dislocation, violence, and deforestation that propelled seventeenth- and eighteenth-century working-class English emigration, offering a powerful restorying of the journey to our present moment of precarity and rootlessness. Following American folk ballads back across the Atlantic, Joanna Brooks shares a scholarly and personal account of the intergenerational traumas that shape the history of white Anglos on Turtle Island"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Joanna Brooks is professor and chair of the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University. She is the author of the award-winning American Lazarus: Religion and the Rise of African-American and Native American Literatures as well as The Book of Mormon Girl: A Memoir of an American Faith.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Brave Men Run
1. No Land of Opportunity: Folk Ballads and the Story of Why We Left
2. Murder the Brother Who Killed the Tree: Fratricide and the Story of Deforestation
3. Two Sisters and a Beaver Hat: Desire and the Story of Colonial Commodity Culture
4. To Sink It in the Lonesome Sea: Betrayal and the Story of Indentured Servitude
5. Seduction of the House Carpenter’s Wife: Abandonment and the Story of Colonial Migration