Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe contributors to this volume have not only revivified ethnopoetics as a research project in the contemporary moment; they have also pointed the way to fruitful lines of folkloristic research and collaboration in the future, lines founded on the importance of measured and allusive speech and that build on Dell hymes' commitment to the voices of marginalized peoples.
* Journal of American Folklore *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
"Introducing Ethnopoetics: Hymes's Legacy," Anthony K. Webster and Paul V. Kroskrity
[section] Listening for Voices
1 "Reinventing Ethnopoetics," Robert Moore
"The Patterning of Style: Indices of Performance through
2 Ethnopoetic Analysis of Century-Old Wax Cylinders," Alexander D. King
3 " 'Grow with That, Walk with That': Hymes, Dialogicality, and Text Collections," M. Eleanor Nevins
4 " 'The Validity of Navajo Is in Its Sounds': On Hymes, Navajo Poetry, Punning, and the Recognition of Voice," Anthony K. Webster
5 "Discursive Discriminations in the Representation of Western Mono and Yokuts Stories: Confronting Narrative Inequality and Listening to Indigenous Voices in Central California," Paul V. Kroskrity
6 "Discovery and Dialogue in Ethnopoetics," Richard Bauman
[section] Ethnopoetic Pathways
7 "The Poetics of Language Revitalization: Text, Performance, and Change," Gerald L. Carr and Barbra Meek
8 "Translating Oral Literature in Indigenous Societies: Ethnic Aesthetic Performances in Multicultural and Multilingual Settings," Sean Patrick O'Neill
9 "Ethnopoetics and Ideologies of Poetic Truth," David W. Samuels
10 "Contested Mobilities: On the Politics and Ethnopoetics of Circulation," Charles L. Briggs
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