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Reading the Voice : Native American Oral Poetry On the Page
author
:
Zolbrod, Paul G.
publisher
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University of Utah Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0874804574
print isbn13
:
9780874804577
ebook isbn13
:
9780585129587
language
:
English
subject
Indian poetry--North America--History and criticism, Oral tradition--North America--History and criticism.
publication date
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1995
lcc
:
PM168.Z65 1995eb
ddc
:
398.2/08997
subject
:
Indian poetry--North America--History and criticism, Oral tradition--North America--History and criticism.
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1995 by Paul Zolbrod All rights reserved
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zolbrod, Paul G. Reading the voice : native American oral poetry on the page / Paul G. Zolbrod. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87480-457-4 (alk. paper) 1. Indian poetryNorth AmericaHistory and criticism. |2. Oral traditionNorth AmericaHistory and criticism. I. Title. PM168.Z65 1995 398. 2'08997dc20 94-42708
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Contents
Preface
vii
1 Introduction
1
A Working Hypothesis
Poetry and Related Terms
Poetry and the Sacred
2 Sacred Texts and Iroquois Culture: A Case Study
22
The Story of Creation
The Thank-You Prayer
The Dekanawida Myth
The Condolence Ritual
Poetry as a Cultural Institution
3 Classifying Poetic Texts: Voice
34
Two Kinds of Voice
The Lyric Voice in Print
The Colloquial Voice and the Printed Page
4 Classifying Poetic Texts: Mode
81
The Dramatic Mode
The Narrative Mode
5 Toward a Taxonomy of Texts
108
Glossary of Key Terms
125
Notes
133
Bibliography
139
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Preface
THIS IS A BOOK about poetry: about its sacred underpinnings, its broad presence in everyday life, its necessity to the human communityall of which go largely unnoticed as the printed word and literature move insidiously away from wide public view. More topically, this book is about poetry's abiding importance among Native Americans from ancient times to the presentgoing back long before Europe's alphabetical technology transformed much of this continent's poetry and song from the unamplified, unrecorded product of the speaking or singing voice into something inscribed silently on paper. This volume seeks connections between an ancient tribal way of making and diffusing poetry and more up-to-date, print-oriented or electronic ways.
I make no pretense at completing the task I begin here. Instead I consider this work a tentative first step in reconciling mainstream America with the deep poetic roots of an unwritten aboriginal past, perhaps even with the deeper European roots of its own ancient poetic traditions. Maybe the time has come to try placing Native American poetry in such a perspective. I merely wish to propose one possible way of doing so.
As attention to the "literature" of Native Americans mounts, that term requires reexamination, as does its sister term "poetry." Otherwise we stand to miss much that is essential to the verbal art of the people once carelessly called "Indians," and to that of other indigenous peoples whom print cultures approach from an alien perspective. Also overlooked might be an alternative way of appreciating our own poetry and the long traditions it too essentially bears, especially as electronic media begin to supplant ordinary print. Or, to put the matter more simply, by redefining the
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