Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The paradox of talking on the page: Some aspects of the Tlingit and Haida experience -- 2 How do we learn language? What do we learn? -- 3 Writing voices speaking: Native authors and an oral aesthetic -- 4 Doing things with words: Putting performance on the page -- 5 It shall not end anywhere: Transforming oral traditions -- 6 The social life of texts: Editing on the page and in performance -- Previous Conference Publications
Summary
Essays examine the problems inherent in attempting to record oral cultures for a visual society. What happens when the oral stories, beliefs, or histories of North American Native peoples are transferred to paper or other media?
