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For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded
their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition.
Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all
carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American
Indian rhetorical structures that have proven resistant - and
sometimes antithetical - to Western academic discourse. It is this
tradition that Kimberly G. Wieser seeks to restore in Back to the
Blanket, as she explores the rich possibilities that Native notions
of relatedness offer for understanding American Indian knowledge,
arguments, and perspectives. Back to the Blanket analyzes a wide
array of American Indian rhetorical traditions, then applies them
in close readings of writings, speeches, and other forms of
communication by historical and present-day figures. Wieser turns
this pathbreaking approach to modes of thinking found in the
oratory of eighteenth-century Mohegan and Presbyterian cleric
Samson Occom, visual communication in Laguna Pueblo author Leslie
Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, patterns of honesty and
manipulation in the speeches of former president George W. Bush,
and rhetorics and relationships in the communication of Indigenous
leaders such as Ada-gal'kala, Tsi'yugûnsi'ni, and Inoli. Exploring
the multimodal rhetorics - oral, written, material, visual,
embodied, kinesthetic - that create meaning in historical
discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of
traditional Native modes of communication - a modern-day ""going
back to the blanket,"" or returning to Native practices. Her work
shows how these Indigenous insights might be applied in models of
education for Native American students, in Native American
communities more broadly, and in transcultural communication,
negotiation, debate, and decision making.
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Texas... To Get Horses (Paperback)
Kimberly G Wieser; Edited by Rain Prud'homme-Cranford; Introduction by Juanita Pahdopony
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R542
Discovery Miles 5 420
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native
critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes
contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual
literary representation.Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of
Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language;
Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century
Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol
Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can
include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howe creates
a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic
authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justice takes
on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently
than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morgan
uncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the
subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppolo advocates an
intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for
criticism. Cheryl Suzack situates feminist theories within Native
culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across
Indian Country; Christopher B. Teuton organizes Native literary
criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean
Teuton opens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons
with Native inmates; Robert Warrior wants literary analysis to
consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womack introduces
the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism
published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with
an essay on theorizing experience. Reasoning Together proposes
nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary
criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating
Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It
is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses
- and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of
Native literature.
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