LEADER 04143nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910459196703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-05102-8 010 $a9786613051028 010 $a0-8032-3436-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000061824 035 $a(EBL)619238 035 $a(OCoLC)690660289 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000457730 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11308522 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000457730 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10420340 035 $a(PQKB)11210876 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC619238 035 $a(OCoLC)781311819 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse3685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL619238 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10432616 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305102 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000061824 100 $a20100308d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDeep waters$b[electronic resource] $ethe textual continuum in American Indian literature /$fChristopher B. Teuton 210 $aLincoln $cUniversity of Nebraska Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (270 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8032-2849-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: diving into deep waters -- The oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse: reframing signification in American Indian literary studies -- N. Scott Momaday's The way to Rainy Mountain: vision, textuality, and history -- Trickster leads the way: a reading of Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart: the heirship chronicles -- Transforming "eventuality": the aesthetics of a tribal "word-collector" in Ray A. Young Bear's Black eagle child and Remnants of the first earth -- Interpreting our world: authority and the written word in Robert J. Conley's Real people series -- Epilogue: building ground in American Indian textual studies. 330 $aWeaving connections between indigenous modes of oral storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing relationship between traditional and contemporary Native American systems of creative representation and signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of Mesoamerican writings, Dine sand paintings, and Haudenosaunee wampum belts. He proposes a theory of how and why indigenous oral and graphic means of recording thought are interdependent, their functions and purposes determined by social, political, and cultural contexts. The center of this book examines four key works of contemporary American Indian literature by N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Ray A. Young Bear, and Robert J. Conley. Through a textually grounded exploration of what Teuton calls the oral impulse, the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse, we see how and why various types of contemporary Native literary production are interrelated and draw upon long-standing indigenous methods of creative representation. Teuton breaks down the disabling binary of orality and literacy, offering readers a cogent, historically informed theory of indigenous textuality that allows for deeper readings of Native American cultural and literary expression. 606 $aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aIndians in literature 606 $aOral tradition in literature 606 $aVision in literature 606 $aIndian philosophy$zUnited States 606 $aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xIndian authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aIndians in literature. 615 0$aOral tradition in literature. 615 0$aVision in literature. 615 0$aIndian philosophy 615 0$aIndians of North America$xIntellectual life. 676 $a810.9/897 700 $aTeuton$b Christopher B$01026287 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459196703321 996 $aDeep waters$92441129 997 $aUNINA