The people and the word : reading native nonfiction / / Robert Warrior
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| Autore: |
Warrior Robert Allen
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| Titolo: |
The people and the word : reading native nonfiction / / Robert Warrior
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 818/.08 |
| Soggetto topico: | American prose literature - Indian authors - History and criticism |
| Indians of North America - Intellectual life | |
| Indians of North America - Historiography | |
| Indians in literature | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-231) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Eulogy on William Apess -- Democratic vistas of the Osage constitutional crisis -- The work of Indian pupils -- Momaday in the movement years. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Robert Warrior traces a history of American Indian nonfiction writing, including Pequot intellectual William Apess's autobiographical works; the Osage Constitution of 1881; accounts of boarding school in the late 1880's; and modern Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday's essay "The Man Made of Words." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The people and the word |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-9750-7 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821072303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Indigenous Americas.