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Sending my heart back across the years : tradition and innovation in Native American autobiography /
Using contemporary autobiography theory, and literary and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary aut...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1992.
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| Series: | OUP E-Books.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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