"Forgery, Fraud, and "Theft of Voice
Circulation of Walam Olum
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3058839 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Éléonore Devevey (0000-0003-2945-907X), Ю А Иванюшин (corresponding author) |
| Translators | Julia Mc Laren |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Gradhiva (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0764-8928 • E-ISSN: 1760-849X |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/1451j |
| OpenAlex | W4411363563 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
In 1988, Florence Delay and Jacques Roubaud published the collection Partition rouge, subtitled Poèmes et chants des Indiens d'Amérique du Nord. The "text" that gives this volume its title is a manuscript attributed to the Lenapes, known as the Walam Olum (or "Red Score"), which traces the genesis and migrations of this Algonquin people, as well as their views on the arrival of white settlers. Published and translated several times during the 19th and 20th centuries, the Walam Olum was recognized as a forgery in the 1990s -but this has not put an end to its republications and circulation. How can we explain such persistence? More generally, what is to be made of the many cases of forgery that punctuate the history of the textualization of oral traditions? Such "theft of voice" is a measure of the growing demand, both epistemological and political, of revaluing indigenous expertise
Circulation (fluid dynamics · Engineering · Public Spaces through Art
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |