Cherokee Myths and Legends: Thirty Tales Retold

Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context. Background information is given within each story so the reader may avoid reliance on glossaries, endnotes, or other explanatory aids. The reader may thus experience the stories more as their original audiences would have. This approach to adapting traditional literature derives from ideas found in reader-response and translation theory and from research in cognitive psychology and sociolinguistics.

Author: Terry L. Norton
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: 10/31/2014
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780786494606
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Terry L. Norton is professor emeritus of education at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where he taught courses in literacy education and children's and adolescent literature. He lives in Rock Hill.