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| | Inter-American Studies: On-Line Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | An anthology that includes material (songs, chants, poems, narratives, and oratory) from North, Central, and South America, this collection also features an excellent introduction, one that explains much about the aesthetic, thematic, formal, and cultural qualities of Native American literature. |
 | | There is, for example, a long and detailed account of how the word was regarded as having sacred properties for a number of Native American people and about how it (that is, language) could effectively change the nature of the reality it described. |
 | | Bragas essay seeks to highlight certain aspects of Brazilian Abolitionist poetry as it contrasts with the New England Abolitionist experience in verse and song (585). |
| www.uiowa.edu /~uipress/interamerican/current+i2.html (11940 words) |
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