Talking on the Page : : Editing Aboriginal Oral Texts /

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

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, teache...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (144 p.)
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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

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