In Sending My Heart Back Across the Years, Hertha Wong, an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, expands the definition of autobiography to include non-Western self-expressions. The author lays to rest the assumption that autobiography is Western by relating how Native Americans have traditionally told their personal narratives through stories, pictographs, and performances. The purpose of the book is to utilize contemporary autobiographical theory to trace the changes in Native American autobiography from pre-contact forms to contemporary styles. Wong is interested in enlarging the field of autobiographical studies to include non-written forms of narrative as well as non-Western conceptions of self
Readers will no doubt react favorably to the descriptions of eight unusual people, classified genera...
Rough Forms analyzes U.S. Western autobiographies from 1835 to 1935, focusing especially on ways tha...
Without Indians-or, rather, their imaginings of them-white Americans would hardly know how to define...
In Sending My Heart Back Across the Years, Hertha Wong, an assistant professor of English at the Uni...
Prior to the middle of the twentieth century, North American autobiography was defined largely by ch...
Autobiography has had many functions in American Indian communities: as a powerful means of construc...
American Indian Autobiography provides significant insight into the nature and production of Indian ...
Autobiographical texts represent an author, narrator, and subject with the same proper name, and aud...
In the early 1800s, when Lewis and Clark visited the Hidatsas, they lived at the mouth of the Knife ...
Native American autobiography did not begin in the nineteenth century when white ethnographers began...
This is the second monograph on Native American autobiography, and together with Bataille and Sands\...
American Indians are not conquered. The heart of the American Indian woman is not on the ground. In ...
In examining this volume, I came to realize very quickly that Valaskakis is following the style of a...
Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because i...
This excellent, albeit imperfect, book reexamines indigenous North American oral traditions as alter...
Readers will no doubt react favorably to the descriptions of eight unusual people, classified genera...
Rough Forms analyzes U.S. Western autobiographies from 1835 to 1935, focusing especially on ways tha...
Without Indians-or, rather, their imaginings of them-white Americans would hardly know how to define...
In Sending My Heart Back Across the Years, Hertha Wong, an assistant professor of English at the Uni...
Prior to the middle of the twentieth century, North American autobiography was defined largely by ch...
Autobiography has had many functions in American Indian communities: as a powerful means of construc...
American Indian Autobiography provides significant insight into the nature and production of Indian ...
Autobiographical texts represent an author, narrator, and subject with the same proper name, and aud...
In the early 1800s, when Lewis and Clark visited the Hidatsas, they lived at the mouth of the Knife ...
Native American autobiography did not begin in the nineteenth century when white ethnographers began...
This is the second monograph on Native American autobiography, and together with Bataille and Sands\...
American Indians are not conquered. The heart of the American Indian woman is not on the ground. In ...
In examining this volume, I came to realize very quickly that Valaskakis is following the style of a...
Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because i...
This excellent, albeit imperfect, book reexamines indigenous North American oral traditions as alter...
Readers will no doubt react favorably to the descriptions of eight unusual people, classified genera...
Rough Forms analyzes U.S. Western autobiographies from 1835 to 1935, focusing especially on ways tha...
Without Indians-or, rather, their imaginings of them-white Americans would hardly know how to define...
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