Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing And Representation In North American Indian Texts
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" . . . creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambit... Read more

" . . . creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." -Raymond J. DeMallie

" . . . very suggestive, provocative, engaging . . . -Studies in American Indian Literatures

" . . . Murray''s book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making in particular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisition for all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger public libraries." -Choice

"It is a pleasure to recommend with wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray''s Forked Tongues." -Western American Literature

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  • 6 X 9.02 X 0.43 in
  • 188
  • Indiana University Press
  • March 22, 1991
  • English
  • 9780253206503
David Murray (デイヴィッド・モルレー Deibiddo Marē) was an American educator and government adviser in Meiji period Japan. Murray graduated from Union College in 1852. In 1857-1863, Murray...
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