{"product_id":"the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince-by-matt-cohen-9781517913953","title":"The Silence of the Miskito Prince","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConfronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, \u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Miskito Prince\u003c\/i\u003e explores this question by looking critically at five concepts frequently used to imagine solutions to the challenges of cross-cultural communication: understanding, cosmopolitanism, piety, reciprocity, and patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the first two centuries of North American colonization, Matt Cohen traces how these five concepts of cross-cultural relations emerged from, and continue to evolve within, colonial dynamics. Through a series of revealing archival explorations, he argues the need for a new vocabulary for the analysis of past interactions drawn from the intellectual and spiritual domains of the colonized, and for a historiographical practice oriented less toward the illusion of complete understanding and scholarly authority and more toward the beliefs and experiences of descendant communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Silence of the Miskito Prince\u003c\/i\u003e argues for new ways of framing scholarly conversations that use past interactions as a site for thinking about intercultural relations today. By investigating the colonial histories of these terms that were assumed to promote inclusion, Cohen offers both a reflection on how we got here and a model of scholarly humility that holds us to our better or worse pasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471828893932,"sku":"9781517913953","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/14e8eb68bf201cc43974563485930c9f.jpg?v=1775694140","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince-by-matt-cohen-9781517913953","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}