George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition

ISBN-13: 9781496201560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 360 str.

Delphine Red Shirt

Opis

In this groundbreaking study of the characteristics of Lakota oral style, Delphine Red Shirt shows how its composition and structure are reflected in the work of George Sword, who composed 245 pages of text in the Lakota language using the English alphabet. What emerges in Sword's Lakota narratives is the formulaic patterns inherent in the Lakota language that are used to tell the narratives, as well as recurring themes and story patterns. Red Shirt's primary conclusion is that this cadence originates from a distinctly Lakota oral tradition.