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

Hertha Dawn Sweet Wong

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography. To get started finding Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 257

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release: 1992

ISBN: 0195361601

Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography. To get started finding Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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