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George Sword's Warrior Narratives - Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition (Paperback)
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George Sword's Warrior Narratives - Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition (Paperback)
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Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the
Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The general focus in Lakota oral literary research has been on
content rather than process within oral traditions. In this
groundbreaking study of the characteristics of Lakota oral style,
Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are
reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of
text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet. What
emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives are the formulaic patterns
inherent in the Lakota language that are used to tell the
narratives, as well as recurring themes and story patterns. Red
Shirt's primary conclusion is that this cadence originates from a
distinctly Lakota oral tradition. Red Shirt analyzes historical
documents and original texts in Lakota to answer the question: How
is Lakota literature defined? Her pioneering work uncovers the
epistemological basis of this literature, which can provide
material for literary studies, anthropological and traditional
linguistics, and translation studies. Her analysis of Sword's texts
discloses tools that can be used to determine whether the origin of
any given narrative in Lakota tradition is oral, thereby opening
avenues for further research.
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