Alejandra Dubcovsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 453505 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandra Dubcovsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Dubcovsky |
| SIGNATURE | DUBCOVSKY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5791-8056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
Narrating War and Loss
This chapter covers narratives of war and loss concerning women. In the aftermath of the 1702 siege, Spanish officials in Florida developed careful ways to narrate loss during wartime, which highlights the interconnections of race, class, and gender. The war discourse that centers on women's experiences and knowledge exposed the many taxing burdens women carried during and after bellicose conflicts in the early eighteenth century. The efforts by …
Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz's multilayered and interdisciplinary book accomplishes something quite difficult. It manages to tell us new things about Cotton Mather and, along the way, connects the intellectual as well as physical histories of New England with the larger Atlantic and hemispheric worlds of Early America. Gruesz carefully revisits the well-trudged historiography of Puritan New England, but by focusing on the creation, production, circulatio…
Dynamic movements, fragmented archives, and everything in between
This is an epilogue to the collection of essays devoted to Indigenous Americans and the Atlantic World. It focuses on two core arguments found in the papers featured in the forum. The first is the extraordinary mobility of Native people in the Atlantic world – Native people and stories span a vast geographical and temporal span. The second is the bare and scattered archival fragments that are often the only records of these peoples’ complicated l…
Anohebasisiro Nimanibota / We Want to Talk to the Honored One: Timucua Language and its Uses, Silences, and Protests
In 1688, five Timucua Native chiefs wrote a brief letter welcoming the new Spanish governor to La Florida, or so the accompanying Spanish translation of the letter suggests. The original Timucua words tell another story. Combining two methodologies, linguistic anthropology and history, we seek to offer more than a new translation of a neglected seventeenth-century Native-language text. First, we examine the ways in which the Timucua letter-writer…
The Great Power of Native Women
The Great Power of Native Women Alejandra Dubcovsky (bio) ACCORDING to a Creek story, a monstrous earthworm once impregnated the wife of a hunter. Feeling betrayed by his wife, the husband wanted to leave her in the woods, but his sisters interceded. They insisted that the pregnant wife be brought home so they could care for her. But their medicine was not enough, for when she gave birth many earthworms came out of her. These creatures burned dow…
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840 by Brooke M. Bauer
Reviewed by: Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840 by Brooke M. Bauer Alejandra Dubcovsky Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840. By Brooke M. Bauer. Indians and Southern History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2023. 263 pages. Cloth, ebook. The second endnote of Becoming Catawba cites "personal knowledge gained from my grandmother" (173). With this, Brooke M. Bauer announce…
Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
This book tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives, the book rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. The book reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale-to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of …
Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Apalachee Indians endured some of the most devastating slave raids in the eighteenth century. Their enslavement is a central feature of the story of southeastern Indian slavery. Although scholars have noted the many ways Native peoples negotiated the slave trade, Apalachees appear in these discussions mostly as casualties of an inexorable colonial force. This article employs NAIS methodologies to reframe Apalachee history during Indian slavery. U…
Account of the Martyrs in the Provinces of La Florida
This concise book provides a new translation of Luis Jerónimo de Oré's Relación de los mártires que ha habido en las provincias de La Florida. Oré was a Franciscan priest who surveyed Spanish missions and conversion efforts in La Florida in the early seventeenth century and produced a detailed account of his findings. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Nancy Vogeley have vast experience with early Spanish texts and materials. Their keen and careful appro…
Communication in Colonial North America
Communication in Colonial North America was difficult. To stay informed, people in the early modern world employed a variety of different methods and technologies. Before the regularization of postal routes and the proliferation of newspapers and other printed media, communication depended on the movement and connections of a wide variety of people. Exchanging information was not simply about having the most up‐to‐date news or the quickest messen…
Writing Timucua: Recovering and Interrogating Indigenous Authorship
This paper offers a reexamination of the Timucua-Spanish relations in colonial Florida, culminating in the Timucua uprising of 1656. Combining our two specialties, linguistic anthropology and history, this paper explores the few Timucua religious materials available, which are the oldest extant Native American texts north of Mexico. Examining the content of these texts (the subject matter, the language, and its arguments) as well as the context i…
The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
Book Review| October 01 2017 The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast. By Stern, Jessica Yirush (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $29.95 paper.) Alejandra Dubcovsky Alejandra Dubcovsky University of California, Riverside Search for other works by …
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power
Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597
In 1597 there was an Indian revolt in Spanish Florida. It was violent and bloody. It led to the killing of Franciscans frays and the destruction of a series of missions in the province of Guale. It
The Testimony of Thomás de la Torre, a Spanish Slave
One Hundred Sixty-One Knots, Two Plates, and One Emperor: Creek Information Networks in the Era of the Yamasee War
Indian information networks crisscrossed the colonial Southeast. Operating outside European control and hidden from European eyes, these networks' existence and importance have been assumed but never fully explicated. This article explores some of these inter- and intra-Indian connections. Rooted in the Lower Creek town of Coweta and analyzing sources from the vantage point of Indian country, it shows some of the different ways in which Creek Ind…
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power
Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Apalachee Indians endured some of the most devastating slave raids in the eighteenth century. Their enslavement is a central feature of the story of southeastern Indian slavery. Although scholars have noted the many ways Native peoples negotiated the slave trade, Apalachees appear in these discussions mostly as casualties of an inexorable colonial force. This article employs NAIS methodologies to reframe Apalachee history during Indian slavery. U…
The Testimony of Thomás de la Torre, a Spanish Slave
One Hundred Sixty-One Knots, Two Plates, and One Emperor: Creek Information Networks in the Era of the Yamasee War
Indian information networks crisscrossed the colonial Southeast. Operating outside European control and hidden from European eyes, these networks' existence and importance have been assumed but never fully explicated. This article explores some of these inter- and intra-Indian connections. Rooted in the Lower Creek town of Coweta and analyzing sources from the vantage point of Indian country, it shows some of the different ways in which Creek Ind…
Murder and Martyrdom in Spanish Florida: Don Juan and the Guale Uprising of 1597
In 1597 there was an Indian revolt in Spanish Florida. It was violent and bloody. It led to the killing of Franciscans frays and the destruction of a series of missions in the province of Guale. It
The Testimony of Thomás de la Torre, a Spanish Slave
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South
Alejandra Dubcovsky maps channels of information exchange in the American South, exploring how colonists came into possession of knowledge in a region that lacked a regular mail system or a printing press until the 1730s. She describes ingenious oral networks, and she uncovers important lessons about the nexus of information and power
Communication in Colonial North America
Communication in Colonial North America was difficult. To stay informed, people in the early modern world employed a variety of different methods and technologies. Before the regularization of postal routes and the proliferation of newspapers and other printed media, communication depended on the movement and connections of a wide variety of people. Exchanging information was not simply about having the most up‐to‐date news or the quickest messen…
Writing Timucua: Recovering and Interrogating Indigenous Authorship
This paper offers a reexamination of the Timucua-Spanish relations in colonial Florida, culminating in the Timucua uprising of 1656. Combining our two specialties, linguistic anthropology and history, this paper explores the few Timucua religious materials available, which are the oldest extant Native American texts north of Mexico. Examining the content of these texts (the subject matter, the language, and its arguments) as well as the context i…
The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast
Book Review| October 01 2017 The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast The Lives in Objects: Native Americans, British Colonists, and Cultures of Labor and Exchange in the Southeast. By Stern, Jessica Yirush (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2017. $29.95 paper.) Alejandra Dubcovsky Alejandra Dubcovsky University of California, Riverside Search for other works by …
Defying Indian Slavery: Apalachee Voices and Spanish Sources in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Apalachee Indians endured some of the most devastating slave raids in the eighteenth century. Their enslavement is a central feature of the story of southeastern Indian slavery. Although scholars have noted the many ways Native peoples negotiated the slave trade, Apalachees appear in these discussions mostly as casualties of an inexorable colonial force. This article employs NAIS methodologies to reframe Apalachee history during Indian slavery. U…
Account of the Martyrs in the Provinces of La Florida
This concise book provides a new translation of Luis Jerónimo de Oré's Relación de los mártires que ha habido en las provincias de La Florida. Oré was a Franciscan priest who surveyed Spanish missions and conversion efforts in La Florida in the early seventeenth century and produced a detailed account of his findings. Raquel Chang-Rodríguez and Nancy Vogeley have vast experience with early Spanish texts and materials. Their keen and careful appro…
Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
Narrating War and Loss
This chapter covers narratives of war and loss concerning women. In the aftermath of the 1702 siege, Spanish officials in Florida developed careful ways to narrate loss during wartime, which highlights the interconnections of race, class, and gender. The war discourse that centers on women's experiences and knowledge exposed the many taxing burdens women carried during and after bellicose conflicts in the early eighteenth century. The efforts by …
Cotton Mather's Spanish Lessons: A Story of Language, Race, and Belonging in the Early Americas
Kirsten Silva Gruesz's multilayered and interdisciplinary book accomplishes something quite difficult. It manages to tell us new things about Cotton Mather and, along the way, connects the intellectual as well as physical histories of New England with the larger Atlantic and hemispheric worlds of Early America. Gruesz carefully revisits the well-trudged historiography of Puritan New England, but by focusing on the creation, production, circulatio…
Dynamic movements, fragmented archives, and everything in between
This is an epilogue to the collection of essays devoted to Indigenous Americans and the Atlantic World. It focuses on two core arguments found in the papers featured in the forum. The first is the extraordinary mobility of Native people in the Atlantic world – Native people and stories span a vast geographical and temporal span. The second is the bare and scattered archival fragments that are often the only records of these peoples’ complicated l…
Anohebasisiro Nimanibota / We Want to Talk to the Honored One: Timucua Language and its Uses, Silences, and Protests
In 1688, five Timucua Native chiefs wrote a brief letter welcoming the new Spanish governor to La Florida, or so the accompanying Spanish translation of the letter suggests. The original Timucua words tell another story. Combining two methodologies, linguistic anthropology and history, we seek to offer more than a new translation of a neglected seventeenth-century Native-language text. First, we examine the ways in which the Timucua letter-writer…
The Great Power of Native Women
The Great Power of Native Women Alejandra Dubcovsky (bio) ACCORDING to a Creek story, a monstrous earthworm once impregnated the wife of a hunter. Feeling betrayed by his wife, the husband wanted to leave her in the woods, but his sisters interceded. They insisted that the pregnant wife be brought home so they could care for her. But their medicine was not enough, for when she gave birth many earthworms came out of her. These creatures burned dow…
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840 by Brooke M. Bauer
Reviewed by: Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840 by Brooke M. Bauer Alejandra Dubcovsky Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540–1840. By Brooke M. Bauer. Indians and Southern History. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2023. 263 pages. Cloth, ebook. The second endnote of Becoming Catawba cites "personal knowledge gained from my grandmother" (173). With this, Brooke M. Bauer announce…
Talking Back: Native Women and the Making of the Early South
This book tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives, the book rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative. The book reconstructs the lives of Native women-Timucua, Apalachee, Chacato, and Guale-to show how they made claims to protect their livelihoods, bodies, and families. Through the stories of …
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