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Back to the Blanket: Recovered Rhetorics and Literacies in American Indian Studies

By Kimberly G. Wieser

Book information

Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9780806161464, 0806161469
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9623670 bytes)
Series
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series volume 70
Pages
0\265
Time added
2018-07-12 06:05:38
CentralIndians of North America -- Study and teaching;IndSouthWest Indies);HISTORY / North America;Group identit

Description

Exploring the multimodal rhetorics--oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic--that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication--a modern-day ""going back to the blanket,"" or returning to Native practices. Introduction -- "I speak like a fool, but I am constrained": emancipating Samson Occom's intellectual offspring with American Indian hermeneutics and rhetorics -- Vision, voice, and intertribal metanarrative: the Amerindian visual-rhetorical tradition in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead -- The "great father's" tongue is still "forked": the fight for American Indian resources and red rhetorical strategies in settler colonial politics -- "That little savage was insolent to me today": ada-gal'kala, idle no more, and the perennial problem of "our mad young men" -- Conclusion.

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