04254nam 2200817 a 450 991046215000332120211101234006.00-8014-6541-90-8014-6585-010.7591/9780801465857(CKB)2670000000275556(EBL)3138377(OCoLC)922998308(SSID)ssj0000757088(PQKBManifestationID)11419189(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000757088(PQKBWorkID)10754515(PQKB)10022616(StDuBDS)EDZ0001503884(MiAaPQ)EBC3138377(OCoLC)814705805(MdBmJHUP)muse28837(DE-B1597)480063(OCoLC)961557212(OCoLC)979622634(DE-B1597)9780801465857(Au-PeEL)EBL3138377(CaPaEBR)ebr10612405(CaONFJC)MIL681334(EXLCZ)99267000000027555620120531d2012 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccr"That the people might live"[electronic resource] loss and renewal in Native American elegy /Arnold KrupatIthaca Cornell University Press20121 online resource (256 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-50052-5 0-8014-5138-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Illustrations --Acknowledgments --Introduction --1. Oral Performances (i) --2. Oral Performances (ii) --3. Authors and Writers --4. Elegy in the "Native American Renaissance" and After --Appendix: Best Texts of the Speeches Considered in Chapter 2 --Notes --Works Cited --Index"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People's well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life"--Publisher's Web site.Indian literatureUnited StatesHistory and criticismFolk literature, IndianHistory and criticismAmerican literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticismElegiac poetry, AmericanIndian authorsHistory and criticismIndians of North AmericaFuneral customs and ritesLoss (Psychology) in literatureDeath in literatureGrief in literatureElectronic books.Indian literatureHistory and criticism.Folk literature, IndianHistory and criticism.American literatureIndian authorsHistory and criticism.Elegiac poetry, AmericanIndian authorsHistory and criticism.Indians of North AmericaFuneral customs and rites.Loss (Psychology) in literature.Death in literature.Grief in literature.810.9897Krupat Arnold550302MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462150003321"That the people might live"2463097UNINA