Forked Tongues: Speech, Writing and Representation in North American Indian Texts

by David Murray

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Argues that the many written representations of North American Indians - fictional and documentary, by whites and by Indians themselves - have been used to impose white American ideologies onto Indian culture. Murray uses modern literary theory to analyse and expose this internal colonialism.
  • ISBN10 0861877853
  • ISBN13 9780861877850
  • Publish Date 17 January 1991
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 30 June 2005
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Frances Pinter Publishers Ltd
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 256
  • Language English