Cherokee Myths and Legends: Thirty Tales Retold
- ISBN-10
- 0786494603
- ISBN-13
- 9780786494606
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 232
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-10-31
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Author
- Terry L. Norton
Description
Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background information is given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids. The reader may thus experience the stories more as their original audiences would have. This approach to adapting traditional literature derives from ideas found in reader-response and translation theory and from research in cognitive psychology and sociolinguistics.
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