Studies in American Indian Literatures, April 1st, 2005
Brian Holloway. Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and Black Elk Speaks. Boulder: UP of Colorado, 2003. xvi+ 220 pp.
Interpreting the Legacy is an attractive book with many useful facsimile pages of the transcripts and manuscripts relating to Black Elk Speaks. Holloway undertakes an exploration of Neihardt's role in the book as a literary text and particularly of the ways in which Neihardt transformed the transcript materials into the published book. Yet Holloway's work is not as helpful to Black Elk readers as one might wish.
Holloway is most useful in his literary analysis of the text ...
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