Deep Waters : The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature /

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Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christophe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Teuton, Christopher B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indian philosophy > United States.
Vision in literature.
Oral tradition in literature.
Indians in literature.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: diving into deep waters
  • The oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse: reframing signification in American Indian literary studies
  • N. Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history
  • Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles
  • Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. Young Bear's Black eagle child and Remnants of the first earth
  • Interpreting our world: authority and the written word in Robert J. Conley's Real people series
  • Epilogue: building ground in American Indian textual studies.

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