This book investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sami narratives published in the early 1900s. This study serves as an act of "revoicing," of recovering voices that had been silenced by the scientific discourse which enveloped their passage into print. It highlights the dynamic and conscious choices of narrative strategies made by these storytellers and the implications of the discourses expressed in narration. The analysis demonstrates that storytelling is an elaboration that takes place in negotiation with...
This book investigates the relationship between storytellers, contexts and collective tradition, based on an analysis of North Sami narratives publish...