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Author Zolbrod, Paul G.

Title Reading the voice : Native American oral poetry on the page / Paul G. Zolbrod.

Publication Info. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 146 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146).
Contents 1. Introduction. A Working Hypothesis. Poetry and Related Terms. Poetry and the Sacred -- 2. Sacred Texts and Iroquois Culture: A Case Study. Story of Creation. Thank-You Prayer. Dekanawida Myth. Condolence Ritual. Poetry as a Cultural Institution -- 3. Classifying Poetic Texts: Voice. Two Kinds of Voice. Lyric Voice in Print. Colloquial Voice and the Printed Page -- 4. Classifying Poetic Texts: Mode. Dramatic Mode. Narrative Mode -- 5. Toward a Taxonomy of Texts.
Summary This is a book about poetry: about its sacred underpinnings, its broad presence in everyday life, and its necessity to the human community. Reading the Voice examines poetry's abiding importance among Native Americans from ancient times to the present. It also seeks connections between an ancient tribal way of making and diffusing poetry and more recent print-oriented or electronic means. Drawing on years of experience with Seneca and Navajo singers and storytellers, Paul Zoibrod offers an introductory framework for appreciating what can be called America's first literature and for reevaluating the Western literary heritage. He states, "I consider this work a tentative first step in reconciling mainstream America with the deep poetic roots of an unwritten aboriginal past, and perhaps even with the deeper European roots of its own poetic traditions." To do so effectively, however, readers must first reexamine assumptions about what poetry and literature really are. Those who come to Native American "literature" in print must do so conscious of the dynamic sounds of speech and song by "reading the voice," instead of merely looking at a silent sheet of paper full of alphabetical symbols. By doing otherwise we stand to miss much that is essential to the verbal art of indigenous peoples whom print cultures approach from an alien perspective.
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Subject Indian poetry -- North America -- History and criticism.
Indian poetry.
North America.
Oral tradition -- North America -- History and criticism.
Oral tradition.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Zolbrod, Paul G. Reading the voice. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©1995 0874804574 (DLC) 94042708 (OCoLC)31434396
ISBN 0585129584 (electronic book)
9780585129587 (electronic book)
0874804574
9780874804577 (alkaline paper)