Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berglund, Jeff.

Roush, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alexie, Sherman, 1966---Criticism and interpretation.

Alexie, Sherman.

Indians in literature.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 302 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Contents:

Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund

Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti

"Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich

"An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta

Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen

This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox

Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson

The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez

The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson

Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah

"Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James

Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans

Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey

Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson

The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-60781-974-0

OCLC:

794434657