| 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.
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American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
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Indians in literature.
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| ISBN |
0801488044 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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080144067X (acid-free paper) |
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