Sending My Heart Back Across the Years Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography

Name: Sending My Heart Back Across the Years Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
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ISBN: 9780195069129

ISBN-10: 0195069129

ISBN-13: 9780195069129

Edition: 1992

Authors: Hertha Dawn Wong

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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.

Book details

List price: $200.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/12/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction



Native American Self-Narration and Autobiography Theory


Native American Concepts of Self, Life, and Language


The Web of Self-Narration: Native American and Euro-American Autobiographical Traditions



Pre-Contact Oral and Pictographic Autobiographical Narratives: Coup Tales, Vision Stories, and Naming Practices


Coup Tales


Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Names and Autobiography



Pictographs as Autobiography: Plains Indian Sketchbooks, Diaries, and Text Construction


Sketchbooks of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries


A Cheyenne Diarist and Indigenous Text Production



Literary Boundary Cultures: The Life Histories of Plenty-Coups, Pretty-Shield, Sam Blowsnake, and Mountain Wolf Woman


Two Crow Life Histories


Two Winnebago Life Histories


Performance, Ceremony, and Self-Narration



Oral and Written Collaborative Autobiography: Nicholas Black Elk and Charles Alexander Eastman


Nicholas Black Elk


Charles Alexander Eastman



Contemporary Innovations of Oral Traditions: N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko


N. Scott Momaday


Leslie Marmon Silko


Conclusion


Notes


Works Cited


Index