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A Palimpsest Of Diné Voices, Frances Vitali, Brian C. O'Connor
A Palimpsest Of Diné Voices, Frances Vitali, Brian C. O'Connor
Proceedings from the Document Academy
We use the idea of a palimpsest to probe and illuminate Hayse's model of communication as a dance - not simply the erasure of a single manuscript but the scraping away of the communication system of an entire people.
Among Navajo (Dine’), oral tradition and oral language still operates within mediated print and digital technologies as a complementarity. There is still a commitment to honoring whose voice is telling the stories in American Indian literature, for colonialist attitudes may still be coded with unchallenged stereotypes, cultural inaccuracies for readers.
Modeling the intersection of Diné culture and Anglo culture – both …