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Author Parker, Robert Dale, 1953-

Title The invention of Native American literature / Robert Dale Parker.

Imprint Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9897 P228i 2003    ---  Available
Description xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.
Contents Tradition, invention, and aesthetics in Native American literature and literary criticism -- Nothing to do : John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and Restless young Indian men -- Who shot the sheriff : storytelling, Indian identity, and the marketplace of masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded -- Text, lines, and videotape : reinventing oral stories as written poems -- The existential surfboard and the dream of balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything" : the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear -- The reinvention of restless young men : storytelling and poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River -- Material choices : American fictions and the post-canon.
Subject American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.
ISBN 0801488044 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
080144067X (acid-free paper)

 
    
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