| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1 Native American Self-Narration and Autobiography Theory; 2 Pre-Contact Oral and Pictographic Autobiographical Narratives: Coup Tales, Vision Stories, and Naming Practices; 3 Pictographs as Autobiography: Plains Indian Sketchbooks, Diaries, and Text Construction; 4 Literary Boundary Cultures: The Life Histories of Plenty-Coups, Pretty-Shield, Sam Blowsnake, and Mountain Wolf Woman; 5 Oral and Written Collaborative Autobiography: Nicholas Black Elk and Charles Alexander Eastman; 6 Contemporary Innovations of Oral Traditions: N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indians of North America -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Autobiography.
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autobiography (genre)
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Autobiography
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Indians of North America -- Biography
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780195361605 |
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0195361601 |
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1280440902 |
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9781280440908 |
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1601298161 |
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9781601298164 |
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