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Author:

Neuhaus, Mareike, 1978-

Title:

That's raven talk : holophrastic readings of contemporary indigenous literatures / Mareike Neuhaus.

Publisher:

CPRC Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

viii, 307 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Canadian literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English)--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Native peoples--Canada--Influence on English.--Influence on English.
Native peoples--Canada--Compound words.--Compound words.
Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Canadian literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples--Canada--Influence on English.--Influence on English.
Indigenous peoples--Canada--Compound words.--Compound words.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-294) and index.

Contents:

Theorizing textualized orality in indigenous literatures -- Writing the oral tradition : Ishmael Alunik's Call me Ishmael -- Exorcising guti : Alootook Ipellie's Arctic dreams and nightmares -- "Busy looking for Juliet Hope" : Richard Van Camp's The lesser blessed -- "All this water imagery must mean something" : Thomas King's Green grass, running water -- "Cree-ing loud into my night" : Louise Berince Halfe's Blue marrow -- Contemporary indigenous literatures, textualized orality, and rhetorical sovereignty -- The narrative function of holophrases in indigenous languages.

Summary:

"The first comprehensive study of North American Indigenous languages as the basis of textualized orality in Indigenous literatures in English. Drawing on a significant Indigenous language structure -- the holophrase (one-word sentence) -- Neuhaus proposes "holophrastic reading" as a culturally specific reading strategy for orality in Indigenous writing. In readings of works by Ishmael Alunik (Inuvialuit), Alootook Ipellie (Inuit), Richard Van Camp (Dogrib), Thomas King (Cherokee), and Louise Bernice Halfe (Cree), she demonstrates that (para)holophrases -- the various transformations of holophrases into English-language discourse -- textualize orality in Indigenous literatures by grounding it in Indigenous linguistic traditions. Neuhaus's discussion points to the paraholophrase, the functional equivalent of the holophrase, as a central discourse device in Indigenous writing and as a figure of speech in its own right. Building on interdisciplinary research, this groundbreaking study not only links oral strategies in Indigenous writing to Indigenous rhetorical sovereignty, but also points to ancestral language influences and Indigenous rhetoric more generally as areas for future research"--Cover.

ISBN:

0889772339
9780889772335

OCLC:

(OCoLC)695978754

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)