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"In vain I tried to tell you" - Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics (Hardcover)
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"In vain I tried to tell you" - Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics (Hardcover)
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From the Introduction: This book is . . . devoted to the first
literature of North America, that of the American Indians, or
Native Americans. The texts are from the North Pacific Coast,
because that is where I am from, and those are the materials I know
best. The purpose is general: All traditional American Indian
verbal art requires attention of this kind if we are to comprehend
what it is and says. There is linguistics in this book, and that
will put some people off. ''Too technical," they will say. Perhaps
such people would be amused to know that many linguists will not
regard the work as linguistics. "Not theoretical," they will say,
meaning not part of a certain school of grammar. And many
folklorists and anthropologists are likely to say, "too linguistic"
and "too literary" both, whereas professors of literature are
likely to say, "anthropological" or "folklore," not "literature" at
all. But there is no help for it. As with Beowulf and The Tale of
Genji, the material requires some understanding of a way of life.
Within that way of life, it has in part a role that in English can
only be called that of "literature." Within that way of life, and
now, I hope, within others, it offers some of the rewards and joys
of literature. And if linguistics is the study of language, not
grammar alone, then the study of these materials adds to what is
known about language.
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