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Publisher description: Storytelling and singing continue to be a vital part of community life for Native peoples today. Voices from Four Directions gathers stories and songs from thirty-one Native groups in North America -- including the Inupiaqs in the frigid North, the Lushootseeds along the forested coastline of the far West, the Catawbas in the humid South, and the Maliseets of the rugged woods of the East. Vivid stories of cosmological origins and transformation, historical events remembered and retold, as well as legendary fables can be found in these pages. Well-known Trickster figures like Raven, Rabbit, and Coyote figure prominently in several tales as do heroes of local fame such as Tom Laporte of the Maliseets. The stories and songs entertain, instruct, and recall rich legacies as well as obligations. Many are retellings and reinventions of classic narratives, while others are more recent creations. Award-winning poet and critic Brian Swann has gathered some of the richest and most diverse literatures of Native North America and provides an introduction to the volume. In addition, each story is introduced and newly translated.

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Legends --- Tales --- Indian mythology --- Indians of North America --- Folk literature, Indian --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Mythology --- Religion and mythology --- Folklore --- Folk literature [Indian ] --- North America

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Folk literature [Indian ] --- Indiaanse literatuur --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Indian literature (American Indian) --- Indianen--Literatuur --- Indians--Literature --- Litterature indienne --- Littérature populaire indienne --- Volksliteratuur [Indiaanse ] --- American literature --- America in literature --- Littérature américaine --- Translations into English --- Translations from Indian languages --- Traductions des langues indiennes --- Littérature américaine --- Indians --- History --- Sources --- Languages --- Writing

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Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous nationalist critics, and the changing of academic fashion have resulted in few new studies on the trickster. For example, The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005), includes only a brief mention of the trickster, with skeptical commentary. And, in 2007, Anishinaabe scholar Niigonwedom Sinclair (a contributor to this volume) called for a moratorium on studies of the trickster irrelevant to the specific experiences and interests of Indigenous nations. One of the objectives of this anthology is, then, to encourage scholarship that is mindful of the critic?s responsibility to communities, and to focus discussions on incarnations of tricksters in their particular national contexts. The contribution of Troubling Tricksters, therefore, is twofold: to offer a timely counterbalance to this growing critical lacuna, and to propose new approaches to trickster studies, approaches that have been clearly influenced by the nationalists? call for cultural and historical specificity.

Indiens d'Amerique --- Litterature populaire indienne d'Amerique --- Tricksters dans la litterature. --- Tricksters --- Indians of North America --- Folk literature, Indian --- Tricksters in literature. --- Trickster in literature --- Indian folk literature --- Indian literature --- Trickster --- Folklore --- Magicians --- Swindlers and swindling --- Folk-lore, Indian --- Moeurs et coutumes. --- Folklore. --- Histoire et critique. --- Social life and customs. --- History and criticism. --- Customs

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"Examining materials from early modern and contemporary North India and Pakistan, Tellings and Texts brings together seventeen first-rate papers on the relations between written and oral texts, their performance, and the musical traditions these performances have entailed. The contributions from some of the best scholars in the field cover a wide range of literary genres and social and cultural contexts across the region. The texts and practices are contextualized in relation to the broader social and political background in which they emerged, showing how religious affiliations, caste dynamics and political concerns played a role in shaping social identities as well as aesthetic sensibilities. By doing so this book sheds light into theoretical issues of more general significance, such as textual versus oral norms; the features of oral performance and improvisation; the role of the text in performance; the aesthetics and social dimension of performance; the significance of space in performance history and important considerations on repertoires of story-telling. The book also contains links to audio files of some of the works discussed in the text. Tellings and Texts is essential reading for anyone with an interest in South Asian culture and, more generally, in the theory and practice of oral literature, performance and story-telling."--Publisher's website.

Folk literature, Indian. --- Folk songs, Indian. --- Storytelling --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Indian folk songs --- Indian folk literature --- Oral tradition --- Literature --- Music --- History. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Performance --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Folklore --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Indian literature --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Oral history --- Oral tradition. --- Storytelling. --- Performance. --- India, North. --- North India. --- India, North --- Northern India --- Uttar Bhārat --- Uttara Bhārata