Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-279) and index.
Contents
Introduction : imagining an American Indian center -- Embodying lands : somatic place in N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- Placing the ancestors : historical identity in James Welch's Winter in the blood -- Learning to feel : tribal experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Hearing the callout : American Indian political criticism -- Conclusion : building cultural knowledge in the contemporary Native novel.