{"product_id":"telegraphies-indigeneity-identity-and-nation-in-americas-nineteenth-century-virtual-realm-hardcover","title":"Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America's Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKay Yandell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTelegraphies\u003c\/em\u003e explores literatures envisioning the literary, societal, even the perceived metaphysical effects of various cultures' telecommunications technologies, to argue that nineteenth-century Americans tested in the virtual realm new theories of self, place, nation, and god. The book opens by discussing such Native American telecommunications technologies as smoke signals and sign language chains, to challenge common notions that long-distance speech practices emerged only in conjunction with capitalist industrialization. Kay Yandell analyzes the cultural interactions and literary productions that arose as Native telegraphs worked with and against European American telecommunications systems across nineteenth-century America. Into this conversation \u003cem\u003eTelegraphies\u003c\/em\u003e integrates visions of Morse's electromagnetic telegraph, with its claim to speak new, coded words and to send bodiless, textless prose instantly across the miles. Such writers as Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, and\u003cbr\u003eElla Cheever Thayer crafted memoirs, poetic odes, and novels that envision how the birth of instantaneous communication across a vast continent forever alters the way Americans speak, write, build community, and conceive of the divine. While some writers celebrated far-speaking technologies as conduits of a metaphysical Manifest Destiny to overspread America's primitive cultures, others revealed how telecommunication could empower previously silenced voices to range free in the disembodied virtual realm, even as bodies remained confined by race, class, gender, disability, age, or geography. Ultimately, \u003cem\u003eTelegraphies\u003c\/em\u003e broadens the way literary scholars conceive of telecommunications technologies while providing a rich understanding of similarities between literatures often considered to have little in common.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKay Yandell\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. She lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas with her husband and children.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 222\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 9.4 x 6.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 06, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51822440153376,"sku":"9780190901042","price":196.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b24c372438e4f288dbb34064b7085e48_acaa7953-bd86-48d4-bed9-ba99387f9f1c.webp?v=1781173263","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/telegraphies-indigeneity-identity-and-nation-in-americas-nineteenth-century-virtual-realm-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}