Sending My Heart Back Across the Years : Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography.

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Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written conte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wong, Hertha Dawn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1992.
Temas:
Indians of North America > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
Autobiography
Indians of North America > Biography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1 Native American Self-Narration and Autobiography Theory; 2 Pre-Contact Oral and Pictographic Autobiographical Narratives: Coup Tales, Vision Stories, and Naming Practices; 3 Pictographs as Autobiography: Plains Indian Sketchbooks, Diaries, and Text Construction; 4 Literary Boundary Cultures: The Life Histories of Plenty-Coups, Pretty-Shield, Sam Blowsnake, and Mountain Wolf Woman; 5 Oral and Written Collaborative Autobiography: Nicholas Black Elk and Charles Alexander Eastman; 6 Contemporary Innovations of Oral Traditions: N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko

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