Telling a Good One: The Process of a Native American Collaborative Biography

by Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands

Book Overview

Telling a Good One is the first comprehensive examination of the collaborative process that creates a Native American life story. Kathleen Mullen Sands draws on her partnership with the late Theodore Rios, a Tohono O'odham (formerly Papago) narrator, to address crucial issues surrounding the inscribing of a life story. Sands examines the creative, critical, and cultural processes behind this increasingly popular mode of self-expression. The impetus,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803292813
• ISBN13: 9780803292819
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"