Inventing the American Primitive

Inventing the American Primitive
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9780814715499
ISBN-13 : 0814715494
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Book Synopsis Inventing the American Primitive by : Helen Carr

Download or read book Inventing the American Primitive written by Helen Carr and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carr (English, U. of London) examines literary and anthropological writings that describe, inscribe, translate, and transform Native American myths and poetry to conform with mainstream American society's conception of the primitive. She draws on post-colonial and feminist theory and the recent textual turn of ethnography. The story she finds is taut with the contradiction of trying to preserve a culture while ruthlessly destroying it. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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