Sending my heart back across the years : tradition and innovation in native American autobiography / Hertha Dawn Wong.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wong, Hertha Dawn, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Biography--History and criticism.

Indians of North America.

Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An examination of the literature of American Indians, focusing on the tradition, past and present, of autobiography.

Contents:

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

NotesWorks Cited; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1992.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-772605-4

1-280-44090-2

0-19-536160-1

1-60129-816-1

OCLC:

437154870