Sending My Heart Back Across the Years
Author | : Hertha Dawn Wong |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 1992-03-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195361605 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195361601 |
Rating | : 4/5 (601 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sending My Heart Back Across the Years written by Hertha Dawn Wong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1992-03-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of autobiography to include non-written forms of personal narrative and non-Western concepts of self, highlighting the incorporation of traditional tribal modes of self-narration with Western forms of autobiography and charting the historical transition from orality to literacy.