Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography - Couverture rigide

Wong, Hertha Dawn

 
9780195069129: Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography

Synopsis

Using contemporary autobiography theory, and literary and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary autobiographies.

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Revue de presse

A remarkable synthesis....Well written, well organized, and insightful....A book that will endure on the shelves of those who work in the fields of American-Indian history, American-Indian literature, oral history, and in the fields of biography and autobiography in the United States. (Florida Historical Review)

Présentation de l'éditeur

Using contemporary autobiography theory, and literary and anthropological approaches, Wong traces the development of Native American autobiography from pre-literate oral, artistic, and dramatic personal narratives through late nineteenth and early twentieth-century life histories to contemporary autobiographies.

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