Forked Tongues

ISBN: 9780253206503

出版年: 1991-3

页数: 188

定价: $ 22.54

内容简介

..". creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." --Raymond J. DeMallie ..". very suggestive, provocative, engaging... --Studies in American Indian Literatures ..". Murray's book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making in particular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisition for all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger public libraries." --Choice "It is a pleasure to recommend with wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray's Forked Tongues." --Western American Literature