This Is What They Say
An English rendering of a Chipewyan story cycle dictated in northern Canada in 1928. It preserves the richness of oral tradition and daily life.
Work Information
A spoken tradition returns to the page.
The stories connect hunting, family, animals, and communal memory, reconstructing the rhythm of oral narration in English. They combine folkloric value with literary force.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Univ of Washington Pr
- Published
- 2009-06-30
- Pages
- 286 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 14.99 x 2.03 x 22.61 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780295989334
- ISBN-10
- 0295989335
- Price
- 8420 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Politics & Social Sciences/Social Sciences/Specific Demographics/Native American Studies
2010 American Book Award Winner Chipewyan is one of the many Northern Athapaskan languages spoken in Alaska and western Canada. Mandeville's story cycle is a rich picture of traditional life and thought in the Northern Athapaskan world
Francois Mandeville was a master storyteller born at Fort Resolution in the Northwest Territories in 1878. Fifty years later, at Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, he dictated a book of stories to a young and very talented Chinese linguist, Li Fang-kuei, who wrote them down in the Chipewyan language. Ron Scollon , former professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, first translated these stories in the 1970s after studying with Li, and returns to them here after a lifetime of work and serious play among the mysteries of human language.
Reviews
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What a discovery! This book is about another world; another point of view. What an eye-opener!
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insightful introduction; wonderful translation. moves quite naturally.