Telling a Good One

Theodore Rios, Mullen Sands Kathleen

Description

Telling a Good One is the first comprehensive examination of the collaborative process that creates a Native American life story. Kathleen Mullen Sands draws on her partnership with the late Theodore Rios, a Tohono O''odham (formerly Papago) narrator, to address crucial issues surrounding the inscribing of a life story.

Sands examines the creative, critical, and cultural processes behind this increasingly popular mode of self-expression. The impetus, initial negotiations, interview process, narrative content and style, and the editing and interpretation phases of a Native American life story are all given equal scrutiny. Of particular interest are Sands''s successes and failings as a collaborator and the influence of Tohono O''odham culture and its tradition of storytelling on Rios''s actions and words. Sands examines the effects of her personal background and academic training on her actions and decisions, how her experiences compare with other collaborative autobiographies and biographies, and the role of academia and publishers in shaping expectations about the content and format of Native American biographies and autobiographies.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Indigenous peoples
• Americas

Informations

• Publié par: Nebraska Paperback
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780803202351
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

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   Editorial Board General Editor A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff University of Illinois at Chicago(emerita) Kimberly Blaeser University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Brenda J. Child University of Minnesota R. David Edmunds University of Texas at Dallas Clara Sue Kidwell University of Oklahoma Daniel F. Littlefield University of Arkansas Tsianina Lomawaima University of Arizona

Gerald Vizenor University of California, Berkeley

 The Process of a Na  tive American    Collaborative Biography

By Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands • University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London

©  by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Rios, Theodore. Telling a good one: the process of a Native American collaborative biography / Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alk. paper) –--- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Autobiography – Authorship . Biography as a literary form. . Authorship – Collaboration. . Rios, Theodore. . Sands, Kathleen M., –. . Tohono O’Odham Indians – Biography. . Arizona – Biography. . Sands, Kathleen M., –. Title.  .'.–dc  -

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In memory of and Johannes Raymond For Nina Marlene

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Introduction  Theories of Inscribing Collaborative Personal Narrative  Collaborative Life Story as Literary Expression  Native American Collaborative Personal Narrative  Papago Personal Narratives  More Than One Way to Tell ‘‘A Good One’’  Personal-Narrative Performance, Storytelling, and Audience  Life-Story Structure and Context  The Poetics and Politics of Collaborative Personal Narrative Epilogue Appendix: Editing Interview Transcripts into Narrative Notes Bibliography Index

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   following page   Papago adobe house  Ted Rios during an interview  San Xavier Mission with women in foreground  Ted Rios

 Papago women at a well  Papagos traveling by wagon  Nun scolding Papago boy  Phoenix Indian School  Pit mining at Ajo  Papago cowboys  Ted Rios  Children’s Shrine  San Xavier village  Mine tailings  Papago women with pottery

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