"In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics
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Abstract
Tables Introduction Ethnological Note Orthographic Note PART ONE. UNSUSPECTED DEVICES AND DESIGNS 1 Some North Pacific Coast Poems: A Problem in Anthropological Philology 2 How to Talk Like a Bear in Takelma PART TWO. BREAKTHROUGH TO PERFORMANCE 3 Breakthrough into Performance 4 Louis Simpson's Deserted Boy 5 Verse Analysis of a Wasco Text: Hiram Smith's At'unaqa 6 Breakthrough into Performance Revisited PART THREE. TITLES, NAMES, AND NATURES 7 Myth and Tale Titles of the Lower Chinook 8 The Wife Who Goes Out Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth 9 Discovering Oral Performance and Measured Verse in American Indian Narrative 10 Reading Clackamas Texts Epilog Index to Analyzed Translations and English-Language Texts Bibliography Index