Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing, and Representation in North American Indian Texts
- ISBN-10
- 0253339421
- ISBN-13
- 9780253339423
- Series
- Forked Tongues
- Category
- Foreign Language Study
- Pages
- 181
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Author
- David Murray
Description
..". creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as aself-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application ofpost-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study isbroad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations fromcolonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." -- Raymond J.DeMallie ..". very suggestive, provocative, engaging... --Studies in American Indian Literatures ..". Murray's bookestablishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making inparticular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisitionfor all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger publiclibraries." -- Choice "It is a pleasure to recommendwith wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray's Forked Tongues." -- WesternAmerican Literature
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- 2012
- 184 pages
- Paperback
- Anchor Books
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- 1991
- 181 pages
- Paperback
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press
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