It's Not a Poem. It's My Life: Navajo Singing Identities

Autor/in	Roemer, Kenneth M.
Titel	It's Not a Poem. It's My Life: Navajo Singing Identities
Quelle	In: Studies in American Indian Literatures, 24 (2012) 2, S.84-103 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0730-3238
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Singing; American Indians; Autobiographies; Poetry; Tribes; Indigenous Knowledge; American Indian Culture; Cultural Maintenance + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Gesang; American Indian; Indianer; Autobiography; Autobiografie; Autobiographie; Lyrik; Poesie; Tribal society; Stammesgesellschaft
Abstract	In this essay, the author aims to further complicate the blurrings of Native poetry and autobiography and to make a plea. His general "complicating" genre claim is that an overlooked but absolutely essential form of Native identity expression--that is both preliterate and contemporary--is the traditional song, especially songs that from a non-Native viewpoint do not seem to express autobiographical "content." In most of this essay the author focuses on a particular example that is readily accessible to teachers and scholars. His plea expands upon his comments in a 1997 "SAIL" "Retro-Prospective" essay: more work needs to be done with traditional songs, and oral literatures in general, by more scholars specializing in American Indian literatures. (Contains 4 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10