TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krupat,Arnold
TI  - That the People Might Live: Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy
SN  - 9780801465857
AV  - PM157 
U1  - 810.9897 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Indian literature -- United States -- History and criticism
KW  - Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism
KW  - American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
KW  - Elegiac poetry, American -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
KW  - Indians of North America -- Funeral customs and rites
KW  - Loss (Psychology) in literature
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "That the People Might Live" -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Oral Performances (i) -- The Iroquois Condolence Rites -- The Tlingit koo.'eex -- Occasional Elegy -- Some Ghost Dance Songs as Elegy -- 2. Oral Performances (ii) -- "Logan's Lament" -- Black Hawk's "Surrender Speech" -- Chief Sealth's Farewell -- Two Farewells by Cochise -- The Surrender of Chief Joseph -- 3. Authors and Writers -- Black Hawk's Life -- Black Elk Speaks -- William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip -- The Elegiac Poetry of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, John Rollin Ridge, and Others -- 4. Elegy in the "Native American Renaissance" and After -- Prose Elegy in Momaday, Hogan, and Vizenor -- Elegiac Poetry -- Appendix: Best Texts of the Speeches Considered in Chapter 2 -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
N2  - Krupat surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries, finding that despite differences of language and culture, death and loss are consistently felt by Native peoples both personally and socially
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