TY - BOOK AU - Brander Rasmussen,Birgit TI - Queequeg's coffin: indigenous literacies & early American literature SN - 0822349353 (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2012/// CY - Durham PB - Duke University Press KW - Indian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Indians KW - Languages KW - Writing KW - America KW - Literatures N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-200) and index; Introduction. "A new world still in the making" -- Writing and colonial conflict -- Negotiating peace, negotiating literacies : the undetermined encounter and early American literature -- Writing in the conflict zone : Don Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala's El primer nueva corĂ³nica y buen gobierno -- Indigenous literacies, Moby-Dick, and the promise of Queequeg's coffin ER -