ISBN:
9781604135916
Language:
English
Pages:
VI, 285 S.
Edition:
New ed
Series Statement:
Blooms's modern critical views
DDC:
810.9/897
Keywords:
American literature Indian authors
;
History and criticism
;
Indians of North America Intellectual life
;
Indians in literature
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Anthologie
;
USA
;
Indianer
;
Literatur
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction / Harold BloomThe stories we tell: Louise Erdrich's identity narratives / E. Shelley Reid -- "Thinking like an Indian": exploring American Indian views of American history / Frederick E. Hoxie -- Falls of desire/leaps of faith: religious syncretism in Louise Erdrich's and Joy Harjo's "mixed-blood" poetry / Sheila Hassell Hughes -- Bear, outlaw, and storyteller: American frontier mythology and the ethnic subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday / Jason W. Stevens -- The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Joseph L. Coulombe -- Revolutionary enunciatory spaces: ghost dancing, transatlantic travel, and modernist arson in Gardens in the dunes / A.M. Regier -- Zitkala-Ša and the problem of regionalism: nations, narratives, and critical traditions / Gary Totten -- Poem and tale as double helix in Joy Harjo's A map to the next world / Angelique V. Nixon -- Oral narrative and Ojibwa story cycles in Louise Erdrich's The birchbark house and The game of silence / Elizabeth Gargano -- Extending root and branch: community regeneration in the petitions of Samson Occom / Caroline Wigginton -- Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction / Joseph L. Coulombe.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Introduction
,
The stories we tell: Louise Erdrich's identity narratives
,
"Thinking like an Indian": exploring American Indian views of American history
,
Falls of desire
,
Bear, outlaw, and storyteller: American frontier mythology and the ethnic subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday
,
The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
,
Revolutionary enunciatory spaces: ghost dancing, transatlantic travel, and modernist arson in Gardens in the dunes
,
Zitkala-Sä and the problem of regionalism: nations, narratives, and critical traditions
,
Poem and tale as double helix in Joy Harjo's A map to the next world
,
Oral narrative and Ojibwa story cycles in Louise Erdrich's The birchbark house and The game of silence
,
Extending root and branch: community regeneration in the petitions of Samson Occom
,
Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction
