ISBN:
0816516596
,
0816516588
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 252 p
DDC:
897
Keywords:
Indian literature Translating
;
History and criticism
;
North America
;
Indians of North America Languages
;
Translating
;
Indians of North America Languages
;
Texts
;
North America Intellectual life
;
Nordamerika
;
Indianersprachen
;
Literatur
;
Übersetzung
Description / Table of Contents:
"Identity" and "difference" in the textualization of Zuni verbal art -- Situations and performances -- "Not so stupid as they may have been painted": the Jesuits and Native Canadian verbal art -- "A sort of loose poetry": Henry Timberlake's Cherokee war song -- "Tokens of literary faculty": texts and contexts in the early nineteenth century -- "All we could expect from untutored savages": schoolcraft as textmaker -- "The true presentiments of the Indian mind": linguistic texts as data sources -- Natalie Curtis in Hopiland -- The anthology as museum of verbal art
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-241) and index
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