Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts

By David Murray

Book Overview

" . . . creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive." --Raymond J. DeMallie

" . . . very suggestive, provocative, engaging . . . --Studies in American Indian Literatures

" . . . Murray's book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making in particular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisition for all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger public libraries." --Choice

"It is a pleasure to recommend with wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray's Forked Tongues." --Western American Literature

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253206502
• ISBN13: 9780253206503
• Release Date: March 1991
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 188 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher