Native American Autobiography Redefined
Author: Stephanie A. Sellers
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780820479446
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Author: Stephanie A. Sellers
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780820479446
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Author: Stephanie Ann Sellers
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780496967070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work addresses the questions of what criteria make a Native American autobiography culturally authentic and what does "communal narrative" mean. Sellers completed extensive research on the literary genre Native American Autobiography, as well as an overall study of literary criticism of Native American writing. the research was balanced with an additional focused study on traditional Iroquois women's rituals, sociopolitical roles, and history. A significant portion of the research focused on analyzing the Native American literary criticism of Dr. Arnold Krupat, which has been definitive in the field, and writing a new approach for defining and understanding Native American Autobiography. While Krupat has focused on the works written by Europeans in the name of Native Americans, Hertha Wong, who has also made significant contributions in this genre, has shown how attention to Native culture provides a far more nuanced reading of the possibilities of autobiography. Her study argues that early indigenous pictographs and artwork are as autobiographical as written words on paper. Using Native North American Eastern Woodlands culture, the work shows how a "modern" text can be appropriately read as the autobiography of a long-dead woman, specifically Mohawk diplomat Tekonwatonti (circa 1736--1796). This demonstrates communal narrative and is a traditional component of Eastern Woodlands culture. the differences in Iroquois and EuroAmerican cultures in their perceptions of women and literature were highlighted. A case study was completed on the life of Tekonwatonti and integrates both the research components. the researcher's study illustrates a successful, culturally-accurate work of Native American autobiography; the matrifocal power structure of the Iroquois; Native American methodology in literary analysis; and the historic relationship between Native Americans and EuroAmericans during colonization. A chapter by chapter literary analysis of a Mohawk communal work by poet Maurice Kenny entitled Tekonwatonti (Molly Brant): Poems of War was used for the case study. the analysis of Kelly's work demonstrates the researcher's newly created rubric for the study of works about Native Americans, and works co-written with EuroAmericans pre-1900s before Natives began primarily writing their own works in English. This study has implications for all literary analysis of Native American literature, and of Native American Autobiography in particular. the study also raises important questions about the efficacy of works about Native American women, noting that the vastly different cultural perceptions of women in Native and western culture are a significant barrier to accuracy in both biographical and critical literary works.
Author: Arnold Krupat
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 566
ISBN-13: 9780299140243
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher description: Native American Autobiography is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present._ The thirty narratives included here cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years. From the earliest known written memoir--a 1768 narrative by the Reverend Samson Occom, a Mohegan, reproduced as a chapter here--to recent reminiscences by such prominent writers as N. Scott Momaday and Gerald Vizenor, the book covers a broad range of Native American experience. Editor Arnold Krupat provides a general introduction, a historical introduction to each of the seven sections, extensive headnotes for each selection, and suggestions for further reading, making this an ideal resource for courses in American literature, history, anthropology, and Native American studies. General readers, too, will find a wealth of fascinating material in the life stories of these Native American men and women.
Author: Arnold Krupat
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 0520341058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American w
Author: Hertha Dawn Wong
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0195069129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing contemporary autobiography theory, and literary and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary autobiographies.
Author: John Joseph Mathews
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-08-31
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0806187468
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen John Joseph Mathews (1894–1979) began his career as a writer in the 1930s, he was one of only a small number of Native American authors writing for a national audience. Today he is widely recognized as a founder and shaper of twentieth-century Native American literature. Twenty Thousand Mornings is Mathews’s intimate chronicle of his formative years. Written in 1965-67 but only recently discovered, this work captures Osage life in pre-statehood Oklahoma and recounts many remarkable events in early-twentieth-century history. Born in Pawhuska, Osage Nation, Mathews was the only surviving son of a mixed-blood Osage father and a French-American mother. Within these pages he lovingly depicts his close relationships with family members and friends. Yet always drawn to solitude and the natural world, he wanders the Osage Hills in search of tranquil swimming holes—and new adventures. Overturning misguided critical attempts to confine Mathews to either Indian or white identity, Twenty Thousand Mornings shows him as a young man of his time. He goes to dances and movies, attends the brand-new University of Oklahoma, and joins the Air Service as a flight instructor during World War I—spawning a lifelong fascination with aviation. His accounts of wartime experiences include unforgettable descriptions of his first solo flight and growing skill in night-flying. Eventually Mathews gives up piloting to become a student again, this time at Oxford University, where he begins to mature as an intellectual. In her insightful introduction and explanatory notes, Susan Kalter places Mathews’s work in the context of his life and career as a novelist, historian, naturalist, and scholar. Kalter draws on his unpublished diaries, revealing aspects of his personal life that have previously been misunderstood. In addressing the significance of this posthumous work, she posits that Twenty Thousand Mornings will challenge, defy, and perhaps redefine studies of American Indian autobiography.”
Author: Heidi M. Hanrahan
Publisher: Gale, Cengage Learning
Published:
Total Pages: 13
ISBN-13: 153584826X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGale Researcher Guide for: Native American Autobiography and Realism in the Writings of Sarah Winnemucca is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.
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Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780803217492
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAmerican Indian Autobiography is a kind of cultural kaleidoscope whose narratives come to us from a wide range of American Indians: warriors, farmers, Christian converts, rebels and assimilationists, peyotists, shamans, hunters, Sun Dancers, artists and Hollywood Indians, spiritualists, visionaries, mothers, fathers, and English professors. Many of these narratives are as-told-to autobiographies, and those who labored to set them down in writing are nearly as diverse as their subjects. Black Elk had a poet for his amanuensis; Maxidiwiac, a Hidatsa farmer who worked her fields with a bone-blade hoe, had an anthropologist. Two Leggings, the man who led the last Crow war party, speaks to us through a merchant from Bismarck, North Dakota. White Horse Eagle, an aged Osage, told his story to a Nazi historian. ø By discussing these remarkable narratives from a historical perspective, H. David Brumble III reveals how the various editors? assumptions and methods influenced the autobiographies as well as the autobiographers. Brumble also?and perhaps most importantly?describes the various oral autobiographical traditions of the Indians themselves, including those of N. Scott Momaday and Leslie Marmon Silko. American Indian Autobiography includes an extensive bibliography; this Bison Books edition features a new introduction by the author.
Author: Sam Blowsnake
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780472086320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brotherly companion to Nancy Lurie's Mountain Wolf Woman
Author: B. Railton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011-04-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0230118666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing five personal narratives and in contrast to both the traditional and multicultural narratives, this book suggest cross-cultural transformation has been at the core of America since the first moments of contact.