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

$110.00

ISBN: 9780195069129
Dewey: B
LCC Number: E89.5
Author: Hertha Dawn Wong
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Pages: 256
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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.

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Weight 1.17 lbs
Dimensions 8.82 × 5.76 × 0.88 in
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