The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized (Book)
Title: The Silence of the Miskito Prince: How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized
Author: Matt Cohen
Abstract: How 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, The Silence of the Miskito Prince 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.
Year: 2022
Primary URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince
Primary URL Description: Publisher website
Secondary URL: https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/the-silence-of-the-miskito-prince
Secondary URL Description: Open-access version
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Type: Single author monograph
Copy sent to NEH?: No

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