Resumen de Ethnopoetics and Ideologies of Poetic Truth
Dell Hymes's ethnopoetic project offers ways of thinking about shifts in poetic and rhetorical form in situations of colonialism and expropriation. In this article, the author explore changes in poetic form among the Apache communities of the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona, arguing that they are in part the result of influential theologico-linguistic agendas of the Lutheran missionaries called to the community since the late nineteenth century. He discuss this in light of the missionary work of the Uplegger family, missionaries in San Carlos for three-quarters of a century. He argue that Hymesian ethnopoetics and the Upleggers' missionary work both partake of an ethical argument about the relationship between poetry and truth extending back to the Middle Ages.
