Hertha Dawn Wong

John Elder

Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the WorldAn array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas."A kind of Bible from the natural world." -Los Angeles Times

Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World

Family of Earth and Sky

Using contemporary autobiography theory and literary, historical, and ethnographic approaches, Wong explores the transformation of Native American autobiography from pre-contact oral and pictographic personal narratives through late nineteenth-/early twentieth-century life histories to written contemporary autobiographies. This book expands the definition of autobiography to include non-written forms of personal narrative and non-Western concepts of self, highlighting the incorporation of traditional tribal modes of self-narration with Western forms of autobiography and charting the historical transition from orality to literacy.

Hertha Dawn Wong

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