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Transatlantic voices : interpretations of Native North American literatures / edited by Elvira Pulitano.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--Indian authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Criticism--Europe.
- Criticism.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
- Indians of North America.
- Indians in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - these essays chart the course of theories of Native literature, and delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction, Elvira Pulitano; Part One: Theoretical Crossings; 1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem, Hartwig Isernhagen; 2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature, Bernadette Rigal-Cellard; 3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America, Helmbrecht Breinig; Part Two: From Early Fiction to Recent Directions; 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930's: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded: Gaetano Prampolini
- 5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel: Brigitte Georgi-Findlay Part Three: Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing; 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Deborah L. Madsen; 7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry, Kathryn Napier Gray; 8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611092290
- 9781281092298
- 1281092290
- 9780803256453
- 0803256450
- OCLC:
- 476102237
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