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Overview"For thousands of years, American Indian cultures have recorded their truths in the narratives and metaphors of oral tradition. Stories, languages, and artifacts, such as glyphs and drawings, all carry Indigenous knowledge, directly contributing to American Indian rhetorical structures that have proven resistant - and sometimes antithetical - to Western academic discourse. It is this tradition that Kimberly G. Wieser seeks to restore in Back to the Blanket, as she explores the rich possibilities that Native notions of relatedness offer for understanding American Indian knowledge, arguments, and perspectives. Back to the Blanket analyzes a wide array of American Indian rhetorical traditions, then applies them in close readings of writings, speeches, and other forms of communication by historical and present-day figures. Wieser turns this pathbreaking approach to modes of thinking found in the oratory of eighteenth-century Mohegan and Presbyterian cleric Samson Occom, visual communication in Laguna Pueblo author Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, patterns of honesty and manipulation in the speeches of former president George W. Bush, and rhetorics and relationships in the communication of Indigenous leaders such as Ada-gal'kala, Tsi'yugûnsi'ni, and Inoli. Exploring the multimodal rhetorics - oral, written, material, visual, embodied, kinesthetic - that create meaning in historical discourse, Wieser argues for the rediscovery and practice of traditional Native modes of communication - a modern-day """"going back to the blanket,"""" or returning to Native practices. Her work shows how these Indigenous insights might be applied in models of education for Native American students, in Native American communities more broadly, and in transcultural communication, negotiation, debate, and decision making." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Kimberly G. WieserPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press Volume: 70 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780806157276ISBN 10: 0806157275 Pages: 264 Publication Date: 30 November 2017 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsIn this ambitious and insightful book, Kimberly G. Wieser enacts in her own writing the sort of holistic communication she is urging scholars in Native American studies to adopt. Her ability to communicate as she urges others to communicate is crucial. Her writing is engaging, personable, and refreshingly clear; her arguments are persuasive. --Lynn Domina, author of Understanding Ceremony: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents In this ambitious and insightful book, Kimberley G. Wieser enacts in her own writing the sort of holistic communication she is urging scholars in Native American studies to adopt. Her ability to communicate as she urges others to communicate is crucial. Her writing is engaging, personable, and refreshingly clear; her arguments are persuasive. --Lynn Domina, author of Understanding Ceremony: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents In this ambitious and insightful book, Kimberly G. Wieser enacts in her own writing the sort of holistic communication she is urging scholars in Native American studies to adopt. Her ability to communicate as she urges others to communicate is crucial. Her writing is engaging, personable, and refreshingly clear; her arguments are persuasive. --Lynn Domina, author of Understanding Ceremony: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents Author InformationKimberly G. Wieser is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma and coauthor of Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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