| Description |
xix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Native American literatures / Kenneth Lincoln -- Native American oral narratives: context and continuity / Kenneth M. Roemer -- On the translation of style in oral narratives / Dennis Tedlock -- American Indian verbal art and the role of the literary critic / John Bierhorst -- Traditional native American literature: the translation dilemma / Jeffrey F. Huntsman -- The wolf comes: Indian poetry and lingistic criticism / Karl Kroeber -- Critical models for the study of indigenous literature: the case of the Nahuatl / Willaer Gingerich -- Victoria Howard's G̀itskux and His Older Brother': a Clackamas Chinook myth / Dell Hymes -- Stone Boy: persistent hero / Elaine Jahner -- The vagina dentata motif in Nahuatl and Pueblo mythic narratives: a comparative study / Pat Carr and Willrd Gingerich -- The story of the T̀simonmamant' or Jimson weed girls: a Hopi narrative featuring the motif of the vagina dentata / Ekkehart Malotki -- Poetry and culture: the Navajo example / Paul G. Zolrod -- Comanche and coyote, the culture maker / Galen Buller -- The Indian autobiography: origins, type, and function / Arnold Krupat -- Indian sacred materials: Kroeber, Kroeber, Waters, and Momaday -- B̀adger and Coyote Were Neighbors': comic reconciliation in a Clackamas Chinook myth / William Nichols -- ̀The Hunter Who Had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit,' and the ecological imagination / Jarold Ramsey -- Poem, dream, and the consuming of culture / Karl Kroeber -- Black Elk's truth / William Nichols -- Reasoning together / Karl Kroeber and H. David Brumble. |
| Subject |
Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism.
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Folk literature, Indian. |
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Littérature indienne d'Amérique -- Histoire et critique. |
| Added Author |
Swann, Brian.
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| ISBN |
0520049020 |
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9780520049024 |
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0520049136 paperback |
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9780520049130 paperback |
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