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Before yesterday : the long history of native American writing : this book originated in a symposium in honor of LaVonne Brown Ruoff and in recognition of her long commitment to the study of American Indian literature / edited by Simone Pellerin.

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Before yesterday : the long history of native American writing : this book originated in a symposium in honor of LaVonne Brown Ruoff and in recognition of her long commitment to the study of American Indian literature / edited by Simone Pellerin.
Publication
Pessac : Presses universitaires de Bordeaux, c2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Pellerin, Simone.
  • Ruoff, A. LaVonne Brown.
Description
175 p. : port.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Lettres d'Amérique(s)
Uniform Title
Lettres d'Amérique(s)
Subject
  • Indians in literature > Congresses
  • Indian literature > United States > History and criticism > Congresses
  • American literature > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Indians of North America > Intellectual life > Congresses
  • Criticism
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Note
  • Papers from a symposium held at Université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier, May 16-17, 2008.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Preface / Simone Pellerin -- A chronological table of early Native American writers -- A literary journey : current scholarship on early Native American literature / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff -- Samson Occom : a paradigm of resistance / Lionel Larré -- Contemporary anticolonialist reading and the collaborative writing of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft / Robert Dale Parker -- "according to our knowledge of ourselves" : Andrew Blackbird's Odawa history / David Stirrup -- "Living history" : William Warren's history of the Ojibway people, writing and Anishinaabe literature / Chris LaLonde -- Simon Pokagon's O-gî-mäw-kwé Mit-i-gwä-kî (queen of the woods) : a deceptively simple and charming romance of love and death in the wild woods / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard -- Damned lies? evolutionary theory, quantitative literary analysis and Pauline Johnson's legends of Vancouver / James Mackay in collaboration with: Marios Constantinou, et al -- Ella Cara Deloria and the profession of kinship / Susan Gardner -- D'Arcy McNickle's the hungry generations : what might have been / Lee Schweninger -- The law v. justice : courtrooms in Native American fiction / John Lloyd Purdy -- Métis in change : history and culture through the poetry of Marilyn Dumont and other sources / Naila Clerici -- The cultural impact of literacy in the Cherokee Nation, 1820-1906 : a project report / James W. Parins.
ISBN
  • 9782867816024
  • 2867816025
OCLC
  • 505749076
  • SCSB-12502145
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library