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Volume 6, Issue 1 (2012) Pp. 1–29.
- The Identification of Narrative Genres in Upper Tanana Athabascan: a preliminary study
- by Olga Lovick, First Nations University of Canada
This paper is an investigation into the local classification of
narrative genres in Upper Tanana. After reviewing
genre-distinguishing diagnostics developed in the relevant literature,
I apply them to a text collection by Upper Tanana speaker Cora David
and show that only two of them can be successfully applied. Two
important additional findings are the fact that the boundary between
myth and history is not as clear-cut as the speaker suggested and that
genre diagnostics developed for the stories from one cultural group
cannot be transferred to a different cultural group without careful
investigation.
Keywords: Upper Tanana, Athabascan, narrative, genre
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