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Wordarrows: El poder representativo del lenguaje en la obra de no ficción de N. Scott Momaday

2012

This article focuses on two non-fiction works by Native American author N. Scott Momaday: his 1969 historical memoir The Way to Rainy Mountain and his essay collection The Man Made of Words. It specifically tackles performative conceptions of language in the Kiowa storytelling tradition, where words are experienced as speech acts that have the power to intervene in surrounding realities. Taking into account 20th century ethno-cultural and linguistic policies in the United States, the article also reflects on the role indigenous languages may play in contemporary Native American Literature, which has most often been written in English.

N. Scott Momaday; Kiowa; indigenous languages and cultures; history of the United States; Native American LiteratureLearning englishPerformative utteranceN. Scott Momaday Kiowa lenguas y culturas indígenas historia de los Estados Unidos literatura nativo-americana.IndigenousPower (social and political)indigenous languages and culturesKiowaHistory of the United StatesSociologyDiscurs--AnàlisiAnglès--EnsenyamentLiteratureHistory of the United StatesN. Scott Momadayhistory of the United Statesbusiness.industryDiscursos acadèmicsLinguisticsN. Scott Momaday Kiowa llengües i cultures indígenes història dels Estats Units literatura nativa-americanaWork (electrical)MemoirNon-fictionlcsh:PC1-5498Anglès aprenentatgelcsh:Romanic languagesbusinesslcsh:LNative American LiteratureStorytellingIndigenous languages and cultureslcsh:EducationLanguage Value
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Native Waterscapes in the Northern Borderlands: Restoring Traditional Environmental Knowledge in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms

2018

ABSTRACT: In her novel Solar Storms (1995) Chickasaw novelist and poet Linda Hogan foresees what political geographers today refer to as waterscapes, that is, water-based environments where a multiplicity of human and other-than-human forces interact with each other producing diverse forms of signification. This essay examines Indigenous experiences of water, geography, and social activism as they intersect in Hogan‘s waterscape narrative.  I ground my analysis of this visionary novel in recent geographical studies that look at waterscapes from the perspective of cultural politics and which criticize rationalist conceptions of water that reduce it to the sole function of human commodity. Ch…

Political geographyLiterature and Literary TheoryWater rightsLinda HoganGeografía políticaNative American literatureConocimiento ecológico tradicionalWaterscapePolitical scienceSolar StormsTraditional environmental knowledgeHoganEntornos acuáticosDerecho del aguaLiteratura nativo-americanaHumanities
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