Reasoning together : the native critics collective / by Janice Acoose [and others] ; edited by Craig S. Womack, Daniel Heath Justice, and Christopher B. Teuton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Acoose, Janice.

Womack, Craig S.

Justice, Daniel Heath.

Teuton, Christopher B.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Ethnic identity.

Indians in literature.

American literature--Indian authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vi, 451 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2008]

Summary:

This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Bringing twelve distinguished authors into conversation, Reasoning Together is an interactive work. Each essay comments on the others so that contributions derive added strength from their companion pieces.

Contents:

A single decade: book-length native literary criticism between 1986 and 1997 / Craig S. Womack

The callout: writing American Indian politics / Sean Teuton

"Who shall gainsay our decision?": Choctaw literary criticism in 1830 / Phillip Carroll Morgan

"Go away, water!": Kinship criticism and the decolonization imperative / Daniel Heath Justice

Land claims, identity claims: mapping indigenous feminism in literary criticism and in Winona LaDuke's Last standing woman / Cheryl Suzack

Theorizing American Indian literature: applying oral concepts to written traditions / Christopher B. Teuton

Honoring Ni'Wahkomakanak / Janice Acoose

Digging at the roots: location an ethical, native criticism / Lisa Brooks

Of one blood: an argument for relations and regionality in Native American Literary studies / Tol Foster

Samson Occom as writing instructor: the search for an intertribal rhetoric / Kimberly Roppolo

Blind bread and the business of theory making, by embarrassed grief / LeAnne Howe

Your skin is the map: the theoretical challenge of Joy Harjo's erotic poetics / Robert Warrior

Theorizing American Indian Experience / Craig S. Womack.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-430) and index.

ISBN:

9780806138879

0806138874

OCLC:

144570940

Online:

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