2013/06/25 by Geoffrey Kimball · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Art #Computer science #History #Lexicography and Language Studies #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Literature #Multilingual Education and Policy #Narrative #Narrative structure #Philosophy #Sketch
paper · doi:10.1086/670925
openalex publication_date 2013/06/25 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2025/11/06
The structure of literary narrative in Natchez has rarely been discussed. Although both John R Swanton in 1908 and Mary R. Haas in 1934–36 together collected over 70 Natchez literary narratives, only one has been published with the Natchez text, as an introduction to a grammatical sketch of the language (Kimball 2005). Following the lead of Dell Hymes (1981; 2003), Natchez literary narratives are better understood in a verse format than as prose. This paper is such an analysis of a literary narrative, “The Woman Who Was a Fox,” told to Haas by Nancy Raven in 1934.[Keywords: Natchez, oral literature, narrative structure, morphology, semantics]