Talking on the page : editing aboriginal oral texts : papers given at the Thirty-second Annual Conference on Editorial Problems, University of Toronto, 14-16 November 1996

Conference on Editorial Problems 1996 : University of Toronto) (32nd : (Author). Murray, Laura J., 1965- (Added Author). Rice, Keren, 1949- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0802044336
ISBN: 9780802044334
ISBN: 0802082300
ISBN: 9780802082305
Physical Description: print
xxii, 122 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

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The paradox of talking on the page: some aspects of the Tlingit and Haida experience / Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer -- How do we learn language? What do we learn? / Basil Johnston O. Ont., LLD -- Writing voices speaking: native authors and an oral aesthetic / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Doing things with words: putting performance on the page / J. Edward Chamberlin -- It shall not end anywhere: transforming oral traditions / Victor Masayesva Jr. -- The social life of texts: editing on the page and in performance / Julie Cruikshank.