Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
Print Material

Title Studies in American Indian literature : critical essays and course designs / edited by Paula Gunn Allen.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Modern Language Association of America, c1983.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.9897 St94    ---  Available
Description xiv, 384 p. ; 24 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. [320]-361.
Contents Oral literature. The sacred hoop : a contemporary perspective / Paula Gunn Allen -- Cycles of appreciation / Larry Evers -- Teaching American Indian oral literatures -- Personal narrative, autobiography, and intermediate literature. American Indian autobiography / Kathleen Mullen Sands -- Intermediate forms between oral and written literature / Elaine Jahner -- Teaching personal narratives and autobiography -- American Indian women's literature. Transformation of tradition : autobiographical works by American Indian women / Gretchen Bataille -- Grandmother Spider's lifeline / Susan J. Scarberry -- Ain't seen you since : dissent among female relatives in American Indian women's poetry / Patricia Clark Smith -- The feminine landscape of Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Paula Gunn Allen -- Teaching American Indian women's literature -- Modern and contemporary American Indian literature. Old traditions and new forms / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
(cont.) Who puts together / Linda Hogan -- Bear and elk : the nature(s) of contemporary American Indian poetry / Kenneth M. Roemer --Coyote Ortiz : Canis latrans latrans in the poetry of Simon Ortiz / Patricia Clark Smith -- A critical approach to American Indian literature / Elaine Jahner -- Introductory courses in American Indian literature --Survey courses -- The Indian in American literature. Discovering America : Mary Austin and imagism / James Ruppert -- "The white man will never be alone" : the Indian theme in standard American literature courses / Joseph M. Backus -- Teaching the Indian in American literature -- Resources. American Indian literatures : a guide to anthologies, texts, and research / A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff.
Subject American literature -- Indian authors -- Study and teaching.
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
Indian literature -- Study and teaching
Indian literature -- History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Added Author Allen, Paula Gunn.
ISBN 0873523555 (pbk.) : $12.50
0873523547 : $22.50

 
    
Available items only