"That the people might live" (Record no. 207600)
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| fixed length control field | 02843nam a2200409 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9897 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Krupat, Arnold. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | "That the people might live" |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Ithaca : |
| Name of publisher | Cornell University Press, |
| Year of publication | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 242 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill., ports. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a number of Ghost Dance songs, which have been reinterpreted in culturally specific ways by many different tribal nations. Krupat treats elegiac "farewell" speeches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in considerable detail, and comments on retrospective autobiographies by Black Hawk and Black Elk. Among contemporary Native writers, he looks at elegiac work by Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, Maurice Kenny, and Ralph Salisbury, among others. Despite differences of language and culture, he finds that death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially: someone who had contributed to the People's well-being was now gone. Native American elegiac expression offered mourners consolation so that they might overcome their grief and renew their will to sustain communal life"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Indian literature |
| Topical Term | Folk literature, Indian |
| Topical Term | American literature |
| Topical Term | Elegiac poetry, American |
| Topical Term | Indians of North America |
| Topical Term | Loss (Psychology) in literature. |
| Topical Term | Death in literature. |
| Topical Term | Grief in literature. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10612405 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| -- | Publisher's Web site. |
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