Native American Discourse: Poetics and Rhetoric
by Joel Sherzer (Editor), Anthony C. Woodbury (Editor)
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Originally published in 1987, the aim of this book is to advance a fresh perspective on the presentation, philology, analysis, and interpretation of oral literature and verbal art. Developed through commentaries and analysis of a range of texts from Native American communities, past and present, this original approach is centered on discourse, which the contributors take as being the richest point of intersection among language, culture, society, and individual expression. In discourse, show more individuals draw on their own artistry at the same time as they draw on the special and unique resources of the language and culture of their communities. show lessTags
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Joel Sherzer is professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin. He has been carrying out research among the Kuna Indians since 1970. He has written Verbal Art in San Blas: Kuna culture through its discourse, as well as numerous articles dealing with Kuna language, culture, society, and literature.
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- Native American Discourse: Poetics and Rhetoric
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- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 897 — Literature & rhetoric Literatures of other languages Literatures of North American native languages
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- PM155 .N38 — Language and Literature Hyperborean, Native American, and artificial languages Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages Indian languages
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