Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature

Recovering the Word: Essays on Native American Literature
ISBN-10
0520057902
ISBN-13
9780520057906
Category
American literature
Pages
644
Language
English
Published
1987-01-01
Publisher
Univ of California Press
Authors
Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat

Description

These essays by linguists, folklorists, anthropologists, literary theorists, and poets, bring to a new level of sophistication the structural analysis of Native American literary expression. Their common concern is for the appreciation and elucidation of Native American song and story, and for a historical, philosophical, psychoanalytic, and linguistic kind of commentary. The essays address the overlapping issues of presentation and interpretation of Native American literature: How to present in writing an art that is primarily oral, dramatic, and performative? How to interpret that art, both in its traditional forms and in its later, written forms. ISBN 0-520-05790-2: $60.00.

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