Deep waters : the textual continuum in American Indian literature / Christopher B. Teuton.

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Main Author: Teuton, Christopher B.
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2010], ©2010.
Subjects:
American literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Oral tradition in literature.
Vision in literature.
Indigenous philosophy > United States.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Intellectual life.
Physical Description:xxii, 245 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: diving into deep waters
  • The oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse: reframing signification in American Indian literary studies
  • N. Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history
  • Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles
  • Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. Young Bear's Black eagle child and Remnants of the first earth
  • Interpreting our world: authority and the written word in Robert J. Conley's Real people series
  • Epilogue: building ground in American Indian textual studies.