From the center of tradition : critical perspectives on Linda Hogan / edited by Barbara J. Cook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cook, Barbara J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hogan, Linda--Criticism and interpretation.

Hogan, Linda.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Chickasaw Indians--Intellectual life.

Chickasaw Indians.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : University Press of Colorado, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Linda Hogan, a Chickasaw poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and activist, is widely considered to be one of the most influential and provocative Native American figures on the contemporary literary landscape. Although her work has been the focus of numerous essays and conference presentations, until now there has not been a collection of critical essays based solely on her work. This collection's ten unpublished essays and one interview with Hogan reflect the most current and productive critical commentary on Linda Hogan's texts.Hogan writes about community and the traditional indigenous relationships to the land and its plants and animals. The critical essays in From the Center of Tradition place Hogan's work at the heart of current discussions in American literature. Rather than focus on a single facet of her writing, eight scholars of Native American literature discuss the range of her work from several perspectives, including ecocritical, post-colonial, and feminist studies; American Indian studies; and narrative theory. From the Center of Tradition suggests productive avenues of continued study for not only Hogan's body of work but also work by other Native American authors. From the Center of Tradition presents new perspectives and a deeper understanding of Hogan's writing for scholars and students in American fiction, Native American literature, women's studies, environmental literature, as well as for readers of her novels, nonfiction, and poetry.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

FROM THE CENTER OF TRADITION: An Interview with Linda Hogan

"HOW DO WE LEARN TO TRUST OURSELVES ENOUGH TO HEAR THE CHANTING OF EARTH?": Hogan's Terrestrial Spirituality

HOGAN'S HISTORICAL NARRATIVES: Bringing to Visibility the Interrelationship of Humanity and the Natural World

STORIED EARTH, STORIED LIVES: Linda Hogan's Solar Storms and Rick Bass's The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

LINDA HOGAN'S "GEOGRAPHY OF THE SPIRIT": Division and Transcendence in Selected Texts

RHETORICS OF TRUTH TELLING IN LINDA HOGAN'S SAVINGS

CIRCLES WITHIN CIRCLES: Linda Hogan's Rhetoric of Indigenism

VISIONING IDENTITY: Ways of Seeing in Linda Hogan's "Aunt Moon's Young Man"

"THE INSIDE OF LIES AND HISTORY": Linda Hogan's Poetry of Conscience

STANDING NAKED BEFORE THE STORM: Linda Hogan's Power and the Critique of Apocalyptic Narrative

DANCING THE CHRONOTOPES OF POWER: The Road to Survival in Linda Hogan's Power

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND CHRONOLOGY-LINDA HOGAN

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-184) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-50126-X

9786610501267

0-87081-796-5

OCLC:

179123515