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Contemporary American Indian literatures & the oral tradition / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez .

Brill de Ramírez, Susan Berry, 1955- (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0816519218 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816519217 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0816519579 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816519576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 259 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-251) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction. Orality and conversivity in relation to American Indian literatures -- pt. 1. Conversive beginnings: Wittgenstein, semiotics, and American Indian literatures. The emergence of conversive literary relations: Wittgenstein, descriptive criticism, and American Indian literatures. Semiotic significance, conversive meaning, and N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- pt. 2. Conversive relations with and within American Indian literatures. Conversive storytelling in literary scholarship: interweaving the Navajo voices of Nia Francisco, Luci Tapahonso, and Esther G. Belin. Relationality in depictions of the sacred and personhood in the work of Anna Lee Walters, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Luci Tapahonso. Storytellers and their listener-readers in Silko"s "Storytelling" and "Storyteller". The conversive-discursive continuum in the work of Louis Owens, Lee Maracle, and Sherman Alexie -- pt. 3. Transforming literary relations -- Epilogue. Conversive literary relations and James Welch's Winter in the blood -- Appendix 1. Conversive literary structures -- Appendix 2. Grammatical rules for literary scholarship (encompassing both textualy and orally informed traditions) -- Appendix 3. Circular and spherical realities: a brief geometric sketch of the 'language game' of conversive relations.

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Subject:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Oral tradition > United States.
Storytelling > United States.
Storytelling in literature.
Indians in literature.
Letterkunde.
Amerikaans.
Indianen.
Verhalen.
Mondelinge literatuur.

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