Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Orality and Conversivity in Relation to American Indian Literatures
Part One. Conversive Beginnings: Wittgenstein, Semiotics, and American Indian Literatures
1. The Emergence of Conversive Literary Relations: Wittgenstein, Descriptive Criticism, and American Indian Literatures
2. Semiotic Significance, Conversive Meaning, and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn
Part Two. Conversive Relations with and within American Indian Literatures
3. Conversive Storytelling in Literary Scholarship: Interweaving the Navajo Voices of Nia Francisco, Luci Tapahonso, and Esther G. Belin
4. Relationality in Depictions of the Sacred and Personhood in the Work of Anna Lee Walters, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Luci Tapahonso
5. Storytellers and Their Listener-Readers in Silko's "Storytelling" and "Storyteller"
6. The Conversive-Discursive Continuum in the Work of Louis Owens, Lee Maracle, and Sherman Alexie
Part Three. Transforming Literary Relations
Epilogue. Conversive Literary Relations and James Welch's Winter in the Blood
Appendix 1. Conversive Literary Structures
Appendix 2. Grammatical Rules for Literary Scholarship (Encompassing Both Textually and Orally Informed Traditions)
Appendix 3. Circular and Spherical Realities: A Brief Gemoetric Sketch of the 'Language Game' of Conversive Relations
Notes
Bibliography
Index