"In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics
- ISBN-10
- 1512802913
- ISBN-13
- 9781512802917
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-11-11
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Dell Hymes
Description
"The most important work in recent decades on the poetics of Native American oral traditions. . . . Hymes restores voice to oral texts that have been little more than museum pieces."—World Literature
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