L’Oralite perdue

Essais d'histoire des pratiques lettrees (Bresil, XVIe-XIXe siecle)

by Andrea Daher

Book cover: L’Oralite perdue

Extent: 195 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: American Studies, Language & Linguistics

Series: Geographies du monde

Series volume number: 20

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(August 2016)

ISBN: 9782812446528

Price: $40.00

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What does indigenous speech say in writing? This work explores how missionary narratives concerning Brazilian Indians from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries represented indigenous orality and illuminates the complex politics of language at work in these texts and their appropriation into the twentieth century.

  • By (author) Andrea Daher