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Artistry in Native American Myths

Artistry in Native American Myths

Kroeber, Karl

Paperback

Series: Texts and Contexts

Native American HistoryMythology & Folklore

Publisher Price: $30.00

ISBN10: 0803277857
ISBN13: 9780803277854
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: Sep 1 1998
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.06 Depth: 8.98
Language: English
This challenging study analyzes nearly forty superb stories, from mythic narratives predating Columbus to contemporary American Indian fiction, representing every traditional Native American culture area. Developing recent ethnopoetic scholarship and drawing on the critical ideas of Mikhail Bakhtin and Pierre Bourdieu, Karl Kroeber reveals how preconceptions deriving from our hypervisual, print-dominated culture distort our understanding of essential functions and forms of oral storytelling.

Kroeber demonstrates that myths do not merely preserve tradition but may transform it by performatively reenacting the concealed sociological and psychological conflicts that give rise to social institutions. Showing how the variability of mythic narrative fosters communal self-renewal, Kroeber offers startling insight into Native Americans' perception of animals as cultured, their creation of visually unrepresentable tricksters by aural imagining, and the rhetorical means through which oral narratives may not only reflect but even redirect political change.

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