@article{438219,
      recid = {438219},
      author = {Teuton, Christopher B.},
      title = {Deep waters the textual continuum in American Indian  literature / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of Nebraska Press,},
      address = {Lincoln :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxii, 245 p.)},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {Weaving connections between indigenous modes of oral  storytelling, visual depiction, and contemporary American  Indian literature, Deep Waters demonstrates the continuing  relationship between traditional and contemporary Native  American systems of creative representation and  signification. Christopher B. Teuton begins with a study of  Mesoamerican writings, Diné sand paintings, and  Haudenosaunee wampum belts. He proposes a theory of how and  why indigenous oral and graphic means of recording thought  are interdependent, their functions and purposes determined  by social, political, and cultural contexts. The center of  this book examines four key works of contemporary American  Indian literature by N. Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, Ray  A. Young Bear, and Robert J. Conley. Through a textually  grounded exploration of what Teuton calls the oral impulse,  the graphic impulse, and the critical impulse, we see how  and why various types of contemporary Native literary  production are interrelated and draw upon long-standing  indigenous methods of creative representation. Teuton  breaks down the disabling binary of orality and literacy,  offering readers a cogent, historically informed theory of  indigenous textuality that allows for deeper readings of  Native American cultural and literary expression.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/438219},
}