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Article: Voice, representation, and dialogue: the poetics of Native American spiritual traditions.(Special Issue: To Hear the Eagles Cry: Contemporary Themes in Native American Spirituality)
- Article from:
- The American Indian Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
- Author:
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Monologue is finalized and deaf to the other s response, does
not expect it and does not acknowledge in it any decisive force.
Monologue manages without the other, and therefore to some
degree materializes all reality ... Life by its very nature is
dialogic. To live means to participate in dialogue. (Mikhail Bakhtin
1984:292-293)
During the past five-hundred years, a substantial literature representing Native American spirituality has come into being as outsiders and Native Americans themselves sought to explain, objectify and analyze what participants have known through direct experience. The best of these ...