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

Author/Contributor(s):	Murray, David
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	03/22/1991
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

. . . creates a new definition of American Indian literary texts as a self-representational genre. This is an intelligent and insightful application of post-modern critical methods to American Indian texts. The scope of the study is broad and ambitious, and the attempt to define Indian self-representations from colonial times to the present is innovative and instructive. --Raymond J. DeMallie

. . . very suggestive, provocative, engaging . . . --Studies in American Indian Literatures

. . . Murray's book establishes itself as the single best introduction to Native American text-making in particular and the betrayals of the translation in general. An essential acquisition for all college and university libraries, and highly recommended for larger public libraries. --Choice

It is a pleasure to recommend with wholehearted enthusiasm David Murray's Forked Tongues. --Western American Literature