Sending my heart back across the years
Subtitle: tradition and innovation in Native American autobiography
By: Hertha Dawn Wong.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Biography -- History and criticism.; Autobiography.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-235) and index.