Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature
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"A compilation of essays and translations in which leading scholars in the fields of linguistics, folklore, ethnopoetics and literary criticism discuss the continuing American Indian oral tradition as literature. Native Americans invested the spoken word with reverence and power, and the oral literature that resulted from the fusing of language and event into vital force is extraordinarily rich and potent. Authors such as Dell Hymes, Karl Kroeber, Dennis Tedlock, Jarold Ramsey and John Bierhorst address the many aspects of the study of this literature, from the problem of translation and of the role of the literary critic to the interpretation of specific stories."
Brian Swann (Editor)
LIB.00391
Berkeley, Los Angeles, London : University of California Press
1983
0-520-04913-6
Context and Overview
"Native American Literatures" by Kenneth Lincoln - 3
"Native American Oral Narratives: Context and Continuity" by Kenneth M. Roemer - 39
The Question of Translation and Literary Criticism
"On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative" by Dennis Tedlock - 57
"American Indian Verbal Art and the Role of the Literary Critic" by John Bierhorst - 78
"Traditional Native American Literature: the Translation Dilemma" by Jeffrey F. Huntsman - 87
"The Wolf Comes: Indian Poetry and Linguistic Criticism" by Karl Kroeber - 98
"Critical Models for the Study of Indigenous Literature: the Case of Nahuatl" by Willard Gingerich - 112
Focus on Stories
"Victoria Howard's 'Gitskux and his Older Brother': A Clackamas Chinook Myth" by Dell Hymes - 129
"Stone Boy: Persistent Hero" by Elaine Jahner - 171
"The Vagina Dentata Motif in Nahuatl and Pueblo Mythic Narratives: A Comparative Study" by Pat Carr and Willard Gingerich - 187
"The Story of the 'Tsimonmamant' or Jimson Weed Girls: A Hopi Narrative Featuring the Motif of the Vagina Dentata" by Ekkehart Malotki - 204
"Poetry and Culture: the Navajo Example" by Paul G. Zolbrod - 221
"Comanche and Coyote, the Culture Maker" by Galen Buller - 245
Native American Culture and the 'Dominant' Culture
"The Indian Autobiography: Origins, Type, and Function" by Arnold Krupat - 261
"Indian Sacred Materials: Kroeber, waters, and Kroeber" by H. David Brumble III - 283
"'Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors': Comic Reconciliation in a Clackamas Chinook Myth" by William Nichols - 301
"'The Hunter Who had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit,' and the Ecological Imagination" by Jarold Ramsey - 309
"Poem, Dream, and the Consuming of Culture" by Karl Kroeber - 323
"Black Elk's Truth" by William Nichols - 334
Reasoning Together
Karl Kroeber and H. David Brumble III - 344
"Native American Literatures" by Kenneth Lincoln - 3
"Native American Oral Narratives: Context and Continuity" by Kenneth M. Roemer - 39
The Question of Translation and Literary Criticism
"On the Translation of Style in Oral Narrative" by Dennis Tedlock - 57
"American Indian Verbal Art and the Role of the Literary Critic" by John Bierhorst - 78
"Traditional Native American Literature: the Translation Dilemma" by Jeffrey F. Huntsman - 87
"The Wolf Comes: Indian Poetry and Linguistic Criticism" by Karl Kroeber - 98
"Critical Models for the Study of Indigenous Literature: the Case of Nahuatl" by Willard Gingerich - 112
Focus on Stories
"Victoria Howard's 'Gitskux and his Older Brother': A Clackamas Chinook Myth" by Dell Hymes - 129
"Stone Boy: Persistent Hero" by Elaine Jahner - 171
"The Vagina Dentata Motif in Nahuatl and Pueblo Mythic Narratives: A Comparative Study" by Pat Carr and Willard Gingerich - 187
"The Story of the 'Tsimonmamant' or Jimson Weed Girls: A Hopi Narrative Featuring the Motif of the Vagina Dentata" by Ekkehart Malotki - 204
"Poetry and Culture: the Navajo Example" by Paul G. Zolbrod - 221
"Comanche and Coyote, the Culture Maker" by Galen Buller - 245
Native American Culture and the 'Dominant' Culture
"The Indian Autobiography: Origins, Type, and Function" by Arnold Krupat - 261
"Indian Sacred Materials: Kroeber, waters, and Kroeber" by H. David Brumble III - 283
"'Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors': Comic Reconciliation in a Clackamas Chinook Myth" by William Nichols - 301
"'The Hunter Who had an Elk for a Guardian Spirit,' and the Ecological Imagination" by Jarold Ramsey - 309
"Poem, Dream, and the Consuming of Culture" by Karl Kroeber - 323
"Black Elk's Truth" by William Nichols - 334
Reasoning Together
Karl Kroeber and H. David Brumble III - 344
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Anthropology, History, Art and Culture
English
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