| Description |
xx, 478 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Brian Swann -- Part One: General -- On the translation of Native American song and story: a theorized history / Arnold Krupat -- "Tokens of literary faculty" : Native American literature and Euroamerican translation in the early nineteenth century / William M. Clements -- Incorporating the native voice: a look back from 1990 / John Bierhorst -- "We explain nothing, we believe nothing" : American Indian poetry and the problematics of translation / Jerome Rothenberg -- Part Two: North America -- Use all there is to use / Dell Hymes -- Oolachan-woman's robe: fish, blankets, masks, and meaning in Boas's Kwakw'ala texts / Judith Berman -- Translating Pentlatch / M. Dale Kinkade -- The discovery of nursery tales in Twana / Nile Robert Thompson -- Translating form in classical American Indian literature / Toby C.S. Langen -- Hopitutungwni: "Hopi names" as literature / Peter Whiteley -- A Hopi song-poem in "Context" / David Leedom Shaul -- Navajo poetry in print and in the field: an exercise in text retrieval / Paul G. Zolbrod -- Translating Papago legalese / Donald Bahr -- Narrative styles in Dakota texts / Julian Rice -- Translating the untranslatable: the place of the vocable in Lakota song / William K. Powers -- Part Three: Central and South America -- Have we really translated the Meso-American "Ancient Word"? / Miguel Leon-Portilla -- The Amanuenses have appropriated the text: interpreting a Nahuatl song of Santiago / Louise M. Burkhart -- Ten types of ambiguity in Nahuatl poetry, or William Empson among the Aztecs / Willard Gingerich -- Translating poetic features in the Sierra Popoluca story of Homshuk / Kay Sammons -- Modern Yucatec Maya oral literature / Allan F. Burns -- The story of Evenadam / Dennis Tedlock -- Modes of representation and translation of Native American discourse: examples from the San Blas Kuna / Joel Sherzer -- Verse analysis of "The Condor and the shepherdess" / Nancy H. Hornberger. |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- Translations into English.
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Indian literature. |
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Indians -- Languages -- Translating into English.
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Indians -- Languages -- Translating into English. |
| Indexed Term |
American Indian literatures Translation |
| Added Author |
Swann, Brian.
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| ISBN |
1560980745 alkaline paper |
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1560980990 paperback alkaline paper |
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