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An Approach to Sideline
12019-07-15T13:23:25+00:00Emma Sternberg9dd1d1d0edcde572d5819158147f717e072da3b911Wisecup Note 2plain2019-07-15T13:23:25+00:00Emma Sternberg9dd1d1d0edcde572d5819158147f717e072da3b9There is at least one more approach to the account, that would follow scholars like Ann Laura Stoler by reading “along the archival grain” to examine how the account might illuminate the workings, anxieties, and shortcomings of colonial power. Given the colonial obsession in the eighteenth century with accounting for Native people’s actions, histories, spiritual and mental states—for example, Eleazar Wheelock’s work to collect his students’ writings in order to display their progress or lack thereof to funders—this is a mode of reading has much to reveal about the contexts in which Mary and Samson Occom interacted with ministers and merchants. But I want to sideline this reading for now, in order to focus on the question what we can learn about Montaukett women’s literacies through the account. See Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010).
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12019-07-15T13:24:01+00:00Approaching the Account1Wisecup Page 2plain2019-07-15T13:24:01+00:00I want to pose two ways for approaching this page of accounts, in order to ask not only what hidden literacies it might illuminate but also what literacies readers need to approach accounts relating to Native women. These two approaches can be characterized as looking through and looking at. Together, they illuminate not just Mary Occom’s knowledge of reading and writing in English but her interaction with various forms of communication and the capacious meanings that accounting had in the eighteenth century.2