Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography

Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
ISBN-10
0195361601
ISBN-13
9780195361605
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
1992-03-12
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Hertha Dawn Wong

Description

Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of autobiography to include non-written forms of personal narrative and non-Western concepts of self, highlighting the incorporation of traditional tribal modes of self-narration with Western forms of autobiography and charting the historical transition from orality to literacy.

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