| Description |
x, 307 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Modern critical views |
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Modern critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-294) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Harold Bloom -- Words and place: a reading of House Made of Dawn / Lawrence J. Evers -- Alienation and broken narrative in Winter in the Blood / Kathleen M. Sands -- An act of attention: event structure in Ceremony / Elaine Jabner -- "He had never danced with his people": cultural survival in John Joseph Mathew's Sundown / Louis Owens -- Ancient children at play--lyric, petroglyphic, and ceremonial / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Textual perspectives and the |
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reader in The Surrounded / James Ruppert -- The dialogic of Silko's Storyteller / Arnold Krupat -- Reading narrated American Indian lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women / Greg Sarris -- The rebirth of Indian and Chinese mythology in Gerald Vizenor's Griever: An American Monkey King in China / Cecilia Sims -- Alienation and the female principle in Winter in the Blood / A. Lavonne Ruoff -- Fighting for her life: the mixed-blood woman's insistence |
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upon selfhood / Janet St. Clair -- The new "frontier" of Native american literature: dis-arming history with tribal humor / Kimberly M. Blaesar -- To be there, no authority to anything: ontological desire and cultural and poetic authority in the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear / Robert Dale Parker -- The Indian historical novel / Alan Velie -- "Where, then, shall we place the hero of the wilderness?" William Apess's eulogy on King Philip and the doctrines of racial destiny / |
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Anne Marie Dannenberg -- "My people...my kind": Mourning Dove's Cogewa the Half-blood as narrative of mixed descent / Martha L. Viehmann -- Dead voices, living voice: on the autobiographical writing of Gerald Vizenor / Arnold Krupat -- Comic liberators and word-healers: the interwoven trickster narratives of Louise Erdrich / Jeanne Roiser Smith -- Chronology. |
| Subject |
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
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| Local Subject |
American literature -- Indigenous authors -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| Added Title |
Native American writers |
| ISBN |
0791047857 hardcover |
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