"That the people might live" : loss and renewal in Native American elegy /

"That the people might live" : loss and renewal in Native American elegy /

"Surveys the traditions of Native American elegiac expression over several centuries. Krupat covers a variety of oral performances of loss and renewal, including the Condolence Rites of the Iroquois and the memorial ceremony of the Tlingit people known as koo'eex, examining as well a numbe...

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Main Author: Krupat, Arnold
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012.
Subjects:
Indian literature > United States > History and criticism.
Folk literature, Indian > History and criticism.
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Elegiac poetry, American > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Funeral customs and rites.
Loss (Psychology) in literature.
Death in literature.
Grief in literature.
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