Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 Contents Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix Introduction: Diving into Deep Waters . . . . . . . . . . . xi 1. The Oral Impulse, the Graphic Impulse, and the Critical Impulse | Reframing Signification in American Indian Literary Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 2. N. Scott Momaday’s The Way to Rainy Mountain | Vision, Textuality, and History. . . . . . . . . ..53 3. Trickster Leads the Way | A Reading of Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles . . . . ..95 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 4. Transforming “Eventuality” | The Aesthetics of a Tribal “Word-Collector” in Ray A. Young Bear’s Black Eagle Child and Remnants of the First Earth. . . . . .145 5. Interpreting Our World | Authority and the Written Word in Robert J. Conley’s Real People Series . . . . . . . . .183 Epilogue | Building Ground in American Indian Textual Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .215 Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221 Works Cited . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..225 Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..235 ...