In Vain I Tried to Tell You: Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

by Dell Hymes and Dell H. Hymes

Book Overview

From the Introduction:

This book is . . . devoted to the first literature of North America, that of the American Indians, or Native Americans. The texts are from the North Pacific Coast, because that is where I am from, and those are the materials I know best. The purpose is general: All traditional American Indian verbal art requires attention of this kind if we are to comprehend what it is and says.

There is linguistics in this book,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812211170
• ISBN13: 9780812211177
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"