Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography
by Hertha Dawn Wong
Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of
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Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of autobiography to include non-written forms of personal narrative and non-Western concepts of self, highlighting the incorporation of traditional tribal modes of self-narration with Western forms of autobiography and charting the historical transition from orality to literacy.
Product Details
- ISBN-13:
- 9780195069129
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Publication date:
- 03/28/1992
- Pages:
- 256
- Product dimensions:
- 5.69(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.73(d)
Table of Contents
Introduction | 3 | |
1 | Native American Self-Narration and Autobiography Theory | 11 |
Native American Concepts of Self, Life, and Language | 13 | |
The Web of Self-Narration: Native American and Euro-American Autobiographical Traditions | 20 | |
2 | Pre-Contact Oral and Pictographic Autobiographical Narratives: Coup Tales, Vision Stories, and Naming Practices | 25 |
Coup Tales | 26 | |
Nineteenth-Century Plains Indian Names and Autobiography | 37 | |
3 | Pictographs as Autobiography: Plains Indian Sketchbooks, Diaries, and Text Construction | 57 |
Sketchbooks of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries | 58 | |
A Cheyenne Diarist and Indigenous Text Production | 77 | |
4 | Literary Boundary Cultures: The Life Histories of Plenty-Coups, Pretty-Shield, Sam Blowsnake, and Mountain Wolf Woman | 88 |
Two Crow Life Histories | 91 | |
Two Winnebago Life Histories | 104 | |
Performance, Ceremony, and Self-Narration | 113 | |
5 | Oral and Written Collaborative Autobiography: Nicholas Black Elk and Charles Alexander Eastman | 117 |
Nicholas Black Elk | 118 | |
Charles Alexander Eastman | 139 | |
6 | Contemporary Innovations of Oral Traditions: N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko | 153 |
N. Scott Momaday | 155 | |
Leslie Marmon Silko | 186 | |
Conclusion | 196 | |
Notes | 201 | |
Works Cited | 225 | |
Index | 237 |
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