Narrative Desire and Textual Consummation in Haida, Tlingit, and Northern-Dene Textualized Orature: A Critical Review Essay on Narrative Revitalization
Abstract: Associated with the rubric of desire and consummation are four interrelated challenges for the critical interpretation of oral narratives transformed into printed texts: the boundaries of the discursive (presence and absence), the recursive (orality and literacy), the ontological (animalit...
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ftjtusaaji:oai:tusaaji.journals.yorku.ca:article/40384 2023-05-15T18:33:20+02:00 Narrative Desire and Textual Consummation in Haida, Tlingit, and Northern-Dene Textualized Orature: A Critical Review Essay on Narrative Revitalization Spencer, Jasmine 2020-05-29 application/pdf https://tusaaji.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/tusaaji/article/view/40384 https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40384 eng eng Glendon College, York University https://tusaaji.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/tusaaji/article/view/40384/36586 https://tusaaji.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/tusaaji/article/view/40384 doi:10.25071/1925-5624.40384 Tusaaji: A Translation Review; Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): Translation and (De)colonization; 48-67 1925-5624 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2020 ftjtusaaji https://doi.org/10.25071/1925-5624.40384 2022-08-31T15:06:26Z Abstract: Associated with the rubric of desire and consummation are four interrelated challenges for the critical interpretation of oral narratives transformed into printed texts: the boundaries of the discursive (presence and absence), the recursive (orality and literacy), the ontological (animality and humanity), and the metaphysical (reincarnation and rewriting) that occur in the collaborations I examine in this review article of oral-literary methodologies and ideologies. I focus on better-known and lesser-known key examples from Haida, Tlingit, and northern-Dene orature as culturally and linguistically defined bodies of oral literature that follow from two interconnections between them: the bioregional and the bibliographical. By comparing essentially Modern conditions for interpretive uncertainty with interpretive cues found in the stories themselves, through a critical review of the colonial and decolonial poetics of orature, I argue that cross-border ways of thinking with these stories may enact narrative revitalization (cf. Spencer, “Telling Animals”; “The Soundscape”) through the circulation of meaning as “desire” and as “consummation.” Keywords: Indigenous languages and literatures; textualized orature; Indigenous epistemologies; decolonial semiotics; comparative poetics Resumen: A la rúbrica del deseo y de la consumación se asocian cuatro desafíos interrelacionados para la interpretación crítica de las narraciones orales llevadas a textos impresos: las fronteras de lo discursivo (presencia y ausencia), lo recursivo (oralidad y alfabetización), lo ontológico (animalidad y humanidad), y lo metafísico (reencarnación y reescritura). Estos están presentes en las colaboraciones que analizo en este artículo acerca de las metodologías y las ideologías oral-literarias. El análisis se centra en ejemplos clave, algunos conocidos, otros menos, de la oratura haida, tlingit y dené del Norte vistos como entidades cultural y lingüísticamente definidas de la literatura oral que se derivan de dos interconexiones: la ... Article in Journal/Newspaper tlingit Tusaaji: A Translation Review (E-Journal - York University) Deseo ENVELOPE(-58.750,-58.750,-64.500,-64.500) Tusaaji: A Translation Review 7 1 |
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Abstract: Associated with the rubric of desire and consummation are four interrelated challenges for the critical interpretation of oral narratives transformed into printed texts: the boundaries of the discursive (presence and absence), the recursive (orality and literacy), the ontological (animality and humanity), and the metaphysical (reincarnation and rewriting) that occur in the collaborations I examine in this review article of oral-literary methodologies and ideologies. I focus on better-known and lesser-known key examples from Haida, Tlingit, and northern-Dene orature as culturally and linguistically defined bodies of oral literature that follow from two interconnections between them: the bioregional and the bibliographical. By comparing essentially Modern conditions for interpretive uncertainty with interpretive cues found in the stories themselves, through a critical review of the colonial and decolonial poetics of orature, I argue that cross-border ways of thinking with these stories may enact narrative revitalization (cf. Spencer, “Telling Animals”; “The Soundscape”) through the circulation of meaning as “desire” and as “consummation.” Keywords: Indigenous languages and literatures; textualized orature; Indigenous epistemologies; decolonial semiotics; comparative poetics Resumen: A la rúbrica del deseo y de la consumación se asocian cuatro desafíos interrelacionados para la interpretación crítica de las narraciones orales llevadas a textos impresos: las fronteras de lo discursivo (presencia y ausencia), lo recursivo (oralidad y alfabetización), lo ontológico (animalidad y humanidad), y lo metafísico (reencarnación y reescritura). Estos están presentes en las colaboraciones que analizo en este artículo acerca de las metodologías y las ideologías oral-literarias. El análisis se centra en ejemplos clave, algunos conocidos, otros menos, de la oratura haida, tlingit y dené del Norte vistos como entidades cultural y lingüísticamente definidas de la literatura oral que se derivan de dos interconexiones: la ... |
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Narrative Desire and Textual Consummation in Haida, Tlingit, and Northern-Dene Textualized Orature: A Critical Review Essay on Narrative Revitalization |
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Narrative Desire and Textual Consummation in Haida, Tlingit, and Northern-Dene Textualized Orature: A Critical Review Essay on Narrative Revitalization |
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