Dialogical Relationships and the Bear in Indigenous Poetry
The essay provides a review of a small but remarkable book on the work of two important Native American and Siberian poets, Meditations after the Bear Feast by Navarre Scott Momaday and Yuri Vella, published in 2016 by Shanti Arts in Brunswick, Maine. Their poetic dialogue revolves around the well-k...
| Published in: | Sibirica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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2018
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| Online Access: | https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/508e0dae-dc1d-474a-b992-fbcc45c9e4e2 https://doi.org/10.3167/sib.2018.170208 https://lacris.ulapland.fi/ws/files/4894367/Dudeck_2018_Dialogical_Relationships_and_the_Bear_in_Indigenou.pdf |
| Summary: | The essay provides a review of a small but remarkable book on the work of two important Native American and Siberian poets, Meditations after the Bear Feast by Navarre Scott Momaday and Yuri Vella, published in 2016 by Shanti Arts in Brunswick, Maine. Their poetic dialogue revolves around the well-known role of the bear as a sociocultural keystone species in the boreal forest zone of Eurasia and North America. The essay analyzes the understanding of dialogicity as shaping the intersubjectivity of the poets emerging from human relationships with the environment. It tries to unpack the complex and prophetic bear dream in one of Vella's poems in which he links indigenous ontologies with urgent sociopolitical problems. |
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