A Listening Wind : Native Literature from the Southeast
Marcia Haag, Marcia Haag
A Listening Wind, a collection of translated original texts and commentary edited by Marcia Haag, highlights the large array of Indigenous linguistic and cultural groups of the U.S. Southeast. A whole range of genres and selected texts represent language groups of the Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Yuchi, Cherokee, Koasati, Houma, Catawba, and Atakapa. The traditional and modern Native literature genres showcased in A Listening Wind include stories that speakers perceive to be in the past (or "fixed"), genres that have developed alongside these stories, and modern story types that have sometimes supplanted traditional tales and are now enjoying trajectories of their own. These texts have been selected to demonstrate particular literary themes and the cultural perspectives that inform them. Introductory essays illuminate how they fit into Native American religious and philosophical systems. Overall this collection discloses the sometimes hidden connections among genres as well as their importance to language groups of the Southeast.
Година:
2016
Издание:
1
Издателство:
University of Nebraska Press
Език:
english
Страници:
361
ISBN 10:
0803295480
ISBN 13:
9780803295483
Серия:
Native Literatures of the Americas and Indigenous World Literatures Ser.
Файл:
PDF, 8.42 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2016