A Karok Myth in "Measured Verse": the Translation of a Performance

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" A Karok Myth in "Measured Verse": the Translation of a Performance "
Bright, William

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	939161
Doc. No	:	LA5j04s1nh
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Bright, William
Title & Author	:	A Karok Myth in "Measured Verse": the Translation of a Performance [Article]\ Bright, William
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology
Volume/ Issue Number	:	1/1
Date	:	1979
Abstract	:	The above discussion and translation is not meant to suggest that all Native American narratives must be analyzable in similar terms. I do not even wish to claim that the Zuni line (as defined by Tedlock) or the Chinookan verse (as defined by Hymes) have their exact counterparts in Karok: indeed, the definitions offered above for Karok lines and verses differ in a number of ways from the definitions given by Tedlock and by Hymes. Nevertheless, it seems clear that Karok narrative, like that of the Zuni and the Chinookan peoples, has a detailed structure which can be expressed in terms of lines and verses. If English-speaking readers are to have the chance to enjoy, in translation, the richness of Native American traditional literature, then it is the translator's duty to respect such structures.