"That the People Might Live" : Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy /

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"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a numbe...

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Autor principal: Krupat, Arnold (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Loss (Psychology) in literature
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites
Indian literature
Grief in literature
Folk literature, Indian
Death in literature
American literature > Indian authors
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Native American.
Chagrin dans la litterature.
Mort dans la litterature.
Perte (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs indiens d'Amerique > Histoire et critique.
Litterature populaire indienne d'Amerique > Histoire et critique.
Grief in literature.
Death in literature.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites.
Elegiac poetry, American > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indian > History and criticism.
Indian literature > United States > History and criticism.
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Sumario:"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People's well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages): illustrations, portraits
ISBN:9780801465857

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