Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing And Representation In North American Indian Texts

by David Murray

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" . . . 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 ambit... Read more

" . . . 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

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Book Details

File size6 X 9.02 X 0.43 in
Print pages188
PublisherIndiana University Press
Publication date March 22, 1991
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780253206503
David Murray (デイヴィッド・モルレー Deibiddo Marē) was an American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan. Murray graduated from Union College in 1852. In 1857-1863, Murray...

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