TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krupat,Arnold
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - "That the people might live": loss and renewal in Native American elegy 
AV  - PM157 .K78 2012eb
U1  - 810.9897 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Indian literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Folk literature, Indian
KW  - American literature
KW  - Indian authors
KW  - Elegiac poetry, American
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Funeral customs and rites
KW  - Loss (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Grief in literature
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2011; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10612405
ER  -