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Adams Title Page Annotation 2
12022-12-05T10:37:57-08:00Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98ba416965plain2022-12-07T13:45:10-08:00Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98baThen in parentheses, the paratext notes that she was “condemned for the MURDER of her spurious child.” The word murder is much larger than the other words, and it is bolded and centered. Garret here is solely connected to her action which is not tolerated and looked down upon by Reverend Adams and the general white public. There was a common trend of highlighting murder in the paratexts for selling purposes. When exploring the title page of Samson Occom, A Sermon, Preached at the Execution of Moses Paul (1772), Philip Round writes “Although the modern reader might prefer to think that it was Occom’s ‘Indian’ identity that sold this work to popular readers, the typography of the title page does not support this motion. Murder, after all, always sells. Occom’s title page sets up his sermon to be a steady seller with an irresistible blend of prurience and piety.”[1] Similarly with Garret, the Euro-American influence incorporated throughout the paratext emphasizes murder so that the text could be a best-seller, as capitalistic gains were prioritized over Garret’s authority in the paratext. Also, the bolding and capitalization of the word murder places Garret’s text into the genre of the execution narrative. Jodi Schorb writes about the genre in detail, explaining, “From the American print origin of the execution narrative in 1674, nearly a dozen texts about Native Americans find their way into the genre.”[2] It is not a coincidence that Indigenous writers found their way into the genre; the constraints of the paratexts and the literary genres constructed by Euro-Americans highly influenced what types of texts Indigenous writers could ultimately publish.
[1] Phillip H. Round, Removable Type: Histories of the Book in Indian Country, 1663-1880, (2010), 68.
[2] Jodi Schorb, “Seeing Other Wise: Reading a Pequot Execution Narrative,” in Early Native Literacies in New England: A Documentary and Critical Anthology, (2008), 148.
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1media/Garret title page_thumb.png2022-12-05T09:40:34-08:00Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98baEliphalet Adams Title Page1Eliphalet Adams Title Pagemedia/Garret title page.pngplain2022-12-05T09:40:35-08:00Lauren Johnson98dac03e7c9c1ad41e1c0a8583704e55802f98ba