Deep waters
Subtitle: the textual continuum in American Indian literature
By: Christopher B. Teuton.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780803228498
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- 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.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: diving into deep waters; title: The oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse: reframing signification in American Indian literary studies; title: N. Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history; title: Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles; title: Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. Young Bear's Black eagle child and Remnants of the first earth; title: Interpreting our world: authority and the written word in Robert J. Conley's Real people series; title: Epilogue: building ground in American Indian textual studies.