Achieving Student Success

Effective Student Services in Canadian Higher Education

By Donna Hardy Cox & C. Carney Strange
Categories: Education, Social Sciences
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Hardcover : 9780773536210, 272 pages, January 2010
Paperback : 9780773536227, 297 pages, January 2010
Ebook (PDF) : 9780773575721, 297 pages, January 2010
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780773582330, January 2010

Description

This incisive and luminescent story, scrupulously grounded in sixteenth-century sources, illuminates the power that "naming" has to create a world - in this case a world still haunted by being the accidental Indies. It is a book about how we perceive and represent the world around us, about the creative and destructive power of language. Through its elaboration of the rich and lively ironies of the Columbus story, The Accidental Indies looks at the nature of storytelling itself.