Talking on the Page : : Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts / / ed. by Laura J. Murray, Keren D. Rice.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Blaeser, Kimberly M.,; Chamberlin, J. Edward,; Cruikshank, Julie,; Dauenhauer, Nora Marks,; Dauenhauer, Richard,; Johnston, Basil,; Masayesva, Victor,; Murray, Laura J.,; Rice, Keren,
• HerausgeberIn: Murray, Laura J.,; Rice, Keren D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Conference on Editorial Problems
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (144 p.)

The worlds of readers and writers on the one hand and listeners and speakers on the other differ in many ways. What happens when the stories, beliefs, or histories of North American Native people, many traditionally communicated orally, are transferred to paper or other media? Why do tellers, teachers, editors, filmmakers, and translators undertake this work? What do the words mean for different audiences? How can they be most effectively and responsibly presented and interpreted? This collection of essays confronts these and other issues that arise in attempting to record oral cultures for a visual society. The book contains an introduction by the editors, and papers by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer, Kimberly M. Blaeser, J. Edward Chamberlain, Victor Masayesva Jr., and Julie Cruikshank.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. The paradox of talking on the page: Some aspects of the Tlingit and Haida experience -- 2. How do we learn language? What do we learn? -- 3. Writing voices speaking: Native authors and an oral aesthetic -- 4. Doing things with words: Putting performance on the page -- 5. It shall not end anywhere: Transforming oral traditions -- 6. The social life of texts: Editing on the page and in performance -- Previous Conference Publications