Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American LiteraturesElvira Pulitano A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - these essays chart the course of theories of Native literature, and delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies. |
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... telling the story of Truganinny (the last of the Tasmanian people) and Julia Pastrana (a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican Indian and circus performer), Rose, according to Napier Gray, “travels across continen- tal, political, and 'genetic ...
... telling the story of Truganinny (the last of the Tasmanian people) and Julia Pastrana (a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican Indian and circus performer), Rose, according to Napier Gray, “travels across continen- tal, political, and 'genetic ...
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Contents
From Early Fiction to Recent Directions | 63 |
Trauma Memory and Narratives of Healing | 109 |
Comparative Mythologies Transatlantic Journeys | 171 |
Contributors | 289 |
Index | 295 |
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Page 54 - We are however not the less obliged by your kind offer, though we decline accepting it : and to show our grateful sense of it, if the gentlemen of Virginia will send us a dozen of their sons, we will take great care of their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them.
Page 53 - Proposal, and we thank you heartily. But you who are wise must know, that different Nations have different Conceptions of things; and you will therefore not take it amiss, if our Ideas of this Kind of Education happen not to be the same with yours.
Page 53 - We have had some experience of it : several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces ; they were instructed in all your sciences ; but when they came back to us, they were bad runners ; ignorant of every means of living in the woods; unable to bear either cold or hunger; knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy ; spoke our language imperfectly ; were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors ; they were totally...
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Page 113 - In its most general definition, trauma describes an overwhelming experience of sudden or catastrophic events in which the response to the event occurs in the often delayed, uncontrolled repetitive appearance of hallucinations and other intrusive phenomena.
Page 122 - A genre lives in the present, but always remembers its past, its beginning. Genre is a representative of creative memory in the process of literary development.