Red Matters : Native American Studies / Arnold Krupat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krupat, Arnold, author.

Series:

Rethinking the Americas.

Rethinking the Americas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Historiography.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (182 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red-Native American culture, history, and literature-should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body of criticism demonstrating the importance of Native American literature in its own right and in relation to other ethnic and minority literatures, Native materials still have not been accorded the full attention they require. Krupat argues that it is simply not possible to understand the ethical and intellectual heritage of the West without engaging America's treatment of its indigenous peoples and their extraordinary and resilient responses.Criticism of Native literature in its current development, Krupat suggests, operates from one of three critical perspectives against colonialism that he calls nationalism, indigenism, and cosmopolitanism. Nationalist critics are foremost concerned with tribal sovereignty, indigenist critics focus on non-Western modes of knowledge, and cosmopolitan critics wish to look elsewhere for comparative possibilities. Krupat persuasively contends that all three critical perspectives can work in a complementary rather than an oppositional fashion.A work marked by theoretical sophistication, wide learning, and social passion, Red Matters is a major contribution to the imperative effort of understanding the indigenous presence on the American continents.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Nationalism, Indigenism, Cosmopolitanism: Three Perspectives on Native American Literatures

2. On the Translation of Native American Song and Story: A Theorized History

3. America's Histories

4. From "Half-Blood" to "Mixedblood": Cogewea and the "Discourse of Indian Blood"

5. The "Rage Stage": Contextualizing Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613211156

9781283211154

1283211157

9780812200683

0812200683

OCLC:

759037221