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Telling Animals: Animacies in Dene Narratives

Telling Animals: Animacies in Dene Narratives

Spencer, Jasmine

Hardcover

LinguisticsAnthropologyIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1793619735
ISBN13: 9781793619730
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 27 2022
Pages: 202
Weight: 1.03
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Telling Animals, Jasmine Spencer offers a comparative yet personal approach to Dene/Athabaskan stories, both Northern and Southern. It examines the animating effects of animal stories, the transformative power of animacies in Dene stories, and the effects of narrative revitalization through animal grammar. It takes as its first premise the teachings of many Elders, who have shared that the stories are alive. Jasmine Spencer's comparative approach combines literary, linguistic, anthropological, and philosophical theories and methods using a deictic framework for closely reading the stories in both their Dene languages and in English translation. The narrative epistemologies enacted by Dene stories counterbalance many of the ethical problems inherent within Euro-Western approaches to ontology and experience. These stories revive those who listen and read, offering hope.

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