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Author:

Teuton, Christopher B.

Title:

Deep waters : the textual continuum in American Indian literature / Christopher B. Teuton.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

c2010

Description:

xxii, 245 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Oral tradition in literature.
Vision in literature.
Indian philosophy--United States.
Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: diving into deep waters -- The oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse: reframing signification in American Indian literary studies -- N. Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history -- Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles -- Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. Young Bear's Black eagle child and Remnants of the first earth -- Interpreting our world: authority and the written word in Robert J. Conley's Real people series -- Epilogue: building ground in American Indian textual studies.

ISBN:

080322849X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780803228498 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)550553888

LCCN:

2010008266

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)