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This book follows the interaction of
"double-voicing" and "double-consciousness" in Native
American literary history. It begins with the
surviving records from the time of colonial contact
and ends with works by Leslie Marmon Silko and Thomas
King, two contemporary authors of the Native American
Literary Renaissance.
"Double-voicing" is a common feature found in many
works preserved by early anthropologists from various
Native American oral traditions. However, after
colonial contact this feature largely disappears from
literary works written by Native American authors,
when it is replaced by the societal condition
"double-consciousness." With the revitalization of
cultural knowledge in the mid-twentieth-century,
Native authors also revitalize their rhetorical
techniques in their writing and the "double-voice"
feature re-emerges coupled with a bicultural
awareness that is carried over from
"double-consciousness."

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