New voices in Native American literary criticism

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New voices in Native American literary criticism / edited by Arnold Krupat.

Summary:

New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism brings together more than twenty Native American and non-Native American critics working in the United States and abroad to explore the oral and textual expressions of Native Americans past and present. Many of the contributors represent a new generation of literary criticism: younger scholars and experts in the field who have not, for the most part, been published widely. The essays discuss Inuit writing, Hopi clowning, Huichol funeral oration, contemporary poetry in the ancient language of Nahuatl, and the narratives of Ojibwe, Koasati, and Shuar storytellers. Contributors also examine the works of Gerald Vizenor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Mourning Dove, Todd Downing, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, and other writers. A final section of essays or "ethnocritiques" examines Western and non-Western model of knowledge and expression, and contrasting approaches to translation and transliteration. Reflecting a variety of disciplines - including anthropology, linguistics, and literature - this volume will be of interest to nonspecialists as well as specialists in American Indian literatures. More than ten tribes are represented, encompassing regions from South and Central America, Mexico, and the American Southwest and Southeast north to the Canadian Arctic.

Record details

ISBN: 1560982012
ISBN: 9781560982012
ISBN: 1560982268
ISBN: 9781560982265
Physical Description: xxv, 555 pages ; 26 cm.
Publisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, ©1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Koasati narrator and narrative / Geoffrey Kimball -- Tradition and innovation in Ojibwe storytelling : Mrs. Marie Syrette's "The Orphans and mashos" / Ridie Wilson Ghezzi -- Creating meaning and evoking emotion through repetition : Shuar war stories / Janet Wall Hendricks -- To be or not to be : suicide and sexuality in Huichol Indian funeral-ritual oratory / Jay Courtney Fikes -- "Another home run for the black sox" : humor and creativity in Hopi ritual clown songs / Hans-Ulrich Sanner -- Writing of the Inuit of Canada's eastern Arctic / Perry Shearwood -- Poems and songs of the Cuicapicque : contemporary Nahuatl poets / Miguel Léon-Portilla --Mystery novels to Choctaw pageant : Todd Downing and native American literature(s) / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Frontiers of native American women's writing : Sarah Winnemucca's Life among the Piutes / Brigitte Georgi-Findlay -- Toward an anthropology of anthropology : culture heroes, origin myths, and mythological places of Southwestern anthropology / William Willard -- Looking through the glass darkly : the editorialized Mourning Dove / Alanna Kathleen Brown.

Great stillness : visions and native wisdom in the writings of Frank Bird Linderman / Celeste River -- Vizenor's Griever : a post-maodernist little red book of cocks, tricksters, and colonists / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Multiple traditions of Gerald Vizenor's Haiku poetry / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Myth, history and identity in Silko and young bear : postcolonial Praxis / David L. Moore -- Literature in a "national sacrifice area" : Leslie Silko's Ceremony / Shamoon Zamir -- Hearing the old ones talk : reading narrated American Indian lives in Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women / Greg Sarris -- How (!) is an Indian? : a contest of stories / Jana Sequoya -- Grandmother, grandfather, and the first history of the Americas / Clifford E. Trafzer -- "Then came the time Crow sang for them" : some ideas about writing and meaning in the work of Peter Kalifornsky / Katherine McNamara -- Because of this I am called the foolish one : Felix White, Sr.'s, Interpretations of the Winnebago trickster / Kathleen A. Danker -- "Poetic fancy" : a glimpse at the translative commentary of Martin J. Sampson / Crisca Bierwert.