Sky Loom

Native American Myth, Story, and Song
Herausgeber: Swann, Brian

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Produktbeschreibung

Brian Swann is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the author and editor of many books, including Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2004), Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2005), and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America .

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 558
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780803246157
• ISBN-10: 0803246153
• Artikelnr.: 41050846

Autorenporträt

Brian Swann is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. He is the author and editor of many books, including Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2004), Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian Literatures of North America (Nebraska, 2005), and Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction    
From Smoothing the Ground: Essays on Native American Oral Literature
Stone Boy: Persistent Hero (Lakota)    
Elaine Jahner
From On the Translation of Native American Literatures
Oolachan-Woman’s Robe: Fish, Blankets, Masks, and Meaning in Boas’s
Kwakw’ala Texts (Kwakw’ala/Kwakiutl)    
Judith Berman
Narrative Styles in Dakota Texts (Lakota)    
Julian Rice
From Coming to Light: Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures
of North America
The Boy Who Went to Live with the Seals (Yupik)    
Ann Fienup-Riordan and Marie Meade
The Girl Who Married the Bear (Tagish/Tlingit)    
Catharine McClellan, Maria Johns, and Dora Austin Wedge
John Sky’s “One They Gave Away” (Haida)    
Robert Bringhurst
The Sun’s Myth (Cathlamet Chinook)    
Dell Hymes
Coyote, Master of Death, True to Life (Kalapuya)    
Dell Hymes
Seal and Her Younger Brother Lived There (Clackamas Chinook)    
Dell Hymes
Poetry Songs of the Shoshone Ghost Dance (Wind River Shoshone)    
Judith Vander
Running the Deer (Yaqui)    
Larry Evers and Felipe S. Molina
Pima Oriole Songs (Pima)    
Donald Bahr and Vincent Joseph
Enemy Slayer’s Horse Song (Navajo)    
David P. McAllester
Two Stories from the Yana (Yana)    
Herbert W. Luthin
From Voices from Four Directions: Contemporary Translations of the Native
Literatures of North America
Raven Stories (Tlingit)    
Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
He Became an Eagle (Western Apache)    
M. Eleanor Nevins and Thomas J. Nevins
The Flight of Dzilyi neeyáni (Navajo)    
Paul G. Zolbrod
Red Swan (Menominee)    
Monica Macaulay and Marianne Milligan
The Birth of Nenabozho (Ojibwe)    
Rand Valentine
Umâyichîs (Naskapi)    
Julie Brittain and Marguerite MacKenzie
From Algonquian Spirit: Contemporary Translations of the Algonquian
Literatures of North America
The Delaware Creation Story (Munsee)    
John Bierhorst
A Pair of Hero Stories (Eastern Cree)    
Susan M. Preston
Winter Stories (Meskwaki/Fox)    
Ives Goddard
Pine Root (Plains Cree)    
Stan Cuthand
Ghost Dance Songs (Arapaho)    
Jeffrey D. Anderson
From Salish Myths and Legends: One People’s Stories
Star Husband: Two Brothers’ Versions of a Traditional Skokomish-Twana Story
(Skokomish-Twana)    
William W. Elmendorf and Steven M. Egesdal
Source Acknowledgments    
Contributors