| Description |
xxv, 555 p. ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Smithsonian series of studies in native American literatures
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Koasati narrator and narrative / Geoffrey Kimball -- Tradition and innovation in Ojibwe storytelling: Mrs. Marie Syrette's "The orphans and mashos" / Ridie Wilson Ghezzi -- Creating meaning and evoking emotion through repetition: Shuar war stories / Janet Wall Hendricks -- To be or not to be : suicide and sexuality in Huichol Indian funeral-ritual oratory / Jay Courtney Fikes -- "Another home run for the black sox": humor and creativity in Hopi ritual clown songs / Hans-Ulrich Sanner -- Writing of the Inuit of Canada's eastern Arctic / Perry Shearwood -- Poems and songs of the Cuicapicque, contemporary Nahuatl poets / Miguel Léon-Portilla -- Mystery novels to Choctaw pageant: Todd Downing and native American literature(s) / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Frontiers of native American women's writing: Sarah Winnemucca's life among the Piutes / Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- Toward an anthropology of anthropology: culture heroes, origin myths, and mythological places of Southwestern anthropology / William Willard -- |
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Looking through the glass darkly: the editorialized Mourning Dove / Alanna Kathleen Brown -- Great stillness : visions and native wisdom in the writings of Frank Bird Linderman / Celeste River -- Vizenor's griever : a post-modernist little red book of cocks, tricksters, and colonists / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Multiple Multiple traditions of Gerald Vizenor's Haiku poetry / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Myth, history and identity in Silko and Young Bear : postcolonial praxis / David L. Moore -- Literature in a "national sacrifice area": Leslie Silko's Ceremony / Shamoon Zamir -- Hearing the old ones talk: reading narrated American Indian lives in Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women / Greg Sarris -- How (!) is an Indian?: a contest of Stories / Jana Sequoya -- Grandmother, grandfather, and the first history of the Americas / Clifford E. Trafzer -- "Then came the time Crow sang for them": some ideas about writing and meaning in the work of Peter Kalifornsky / Katherine McNamara -- |
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Because of this I am called the foolish one: Felix White, Sr.'s interpretations of the Winnebago trickster / Kathleen A. Danker -- "Poetic fancy": a glimpse at the translative commentary of Martin J. Sampson / Crisca Bierwert. |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Krupat, Arnold.
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| ISBN |
1560982012 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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1560982268 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| OCLC # |
26054443 |
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