Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Commonplace Book -- Preface: Starting from Igbo Landing -- Introduction: Searching for Solomons Store -- 1. Shell Mounds and Indianness -- 2. Into the Swamp with El Inca Garcilaso -- or, the Ghost of the Two Body Problem -- 3. A Walk in Penn's Woods -- 4. Coyote and the Kid -- 5. Wheatley in Flight -- 6. Root -- 7. A Raven and Three Crows -- 8. Oro de Oaxaca -- 9. A Is for Acronym -- 10. Emerson on the Hutch -- 11. Mary Rowlandson's War on Terror -- Coda: Emily Dickinson's Ring Shout -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary:
"Essays that fuse literary scholarship and personal travelogue to explore American identity"-- Provided by publisher.
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