| Description |
1 online resource (x, 246 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
OUP E-Books
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| 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 and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary autobiographies |
| Analysis |
American Indian literatures |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-235) and index |
| Notes |
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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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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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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| LC no. |
91036639 |
| ISBN |
9780195361605 |
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0195361601 |
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9780195069129 |
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0195069129 |
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1280440902 |
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9781280440908 |
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9786610440900 |
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6610440905 |
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