Two World Views - Double-Voice and Double-Consciousness in Native American Literature

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This book follows the interaction of double-voicing and double-consciousness in Native American literary history. It begins with the surviving records from the time of colonial contact and ends with works by Leslie Marmon Silko and Thomas King, two contemporary authors of the Native American Literary Renaissance. Double-voicing is a common feature found in many works preserved by early anthro-pologists from various Native American oral traditions. However, after colonial contact this feature largely disappears from literary works written by Native American authors, when it is replaced by the societal condition double-consciousness. With the revitalization of cultural knowledge in the mid-twentieth-century, Native authors also revitalize their rhetorical techniques in their writing and the double-voice feature re-emerges coupled with a bicultural awareness that is carried over from double-consciousness.