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Native American fiction : a user's manual / David Treuer.
Van Pelt Library PS153.I52 T74 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Treuer, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American fiction--Indian authors.
- Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
- Indians of North America.
- Physical Description:
- 212 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Saint Paul, MN : Graywolf Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- Rather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.
- Native American Fiction: A User's Manual is speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essays- on Erdrich, Silko, Welch, Cooper, Alexie, and Carter-are rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Clouds Overhead 7
- Smartberries 29
- Lonely Wolf 69
- Plain Binoculars 77
- How to Hate/Love an Indian 109
- The Myth of Myth 115
- The Spirit Lives On 153
- Indian/Not-Indian Literature 159
- Some Final Thoughts about the Non-Existence of Native American Fiction 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 155597452X
- OCLC:
- 71224864
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