ISBN:
9783825373221
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (244 pages)
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color illustrations
Series Statement:
American studies volume 191
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Native American studies across time and space : essays on the indigenous Americas
DDC:
305.897
Keywords:
Indians of North America Congresses Study and teaching
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American literature Congresses Indian authors
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History and criticism
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American literature ; Indian authors
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Indians of North America ; Study and teaching
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Konferenzschrift 2007
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Konferenzschrift 2007
Abstract:
Acknowledgements; Oliver Scheiding -- Indtroduction: Native American Studies across Time and Spcae; Part I -- Theory and Method; Arnold Krupat -- Culturalismus and Its Discontents; Robert Warrior -- Contemporary Indigenous Approaches to Criticism Theory, and Method; Alfred Young Man -- A Critique of Anthropology from the Native Perspective; Part II -- Experience and Practice; Regina Harrison -- Economies of Exchange in the Colonial Ades; Catherine Julien -- What to Read on the Subject of Inca Religion; Luis Fernando Restrepo -- Memory and Justice
Abstract:
D. Dörr/Mark D. Cole -- Native American Nations between Termination and Self-DeterminationPart III -- Literature and Peformance; Gordon M. Sayre -- John Tanner, Métis: On the Impossibilites of Cultural Translation; Clemens Spahr -- Sherman Alexie and the Limits of Storytelling; Jeanne Perreault -- Stealing Souls: The Dynamics of Evil in Contemporary Indigenous Literature; Birgit Däwes -- ""We are the Canon""; Vera Städing -- Re-figuring Stereotypes and Intertribal Performance in Hanay Geiogamah's Foghorn; Contributors; Index
Abstract:
HauptbeschreibungThis collection of essays advocates a multidisciplinary dialogue that brings together an international group of scholars who work in the field of Latin American, Anglo-American, and Francophone Native Studies. To foster a more comprehensive and diverse curriculum of Native American Studies, this volume combines contributions from literary programs (English, Spanish, Comparative Literature) as well as from related fields in the humanities such as anthropology, history, and law. The goal of this collection of essays is to contribute to the development of Native Americ
Note:
Papers from a conference held 2007, Mainz
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Includes bibliographical references and index
