Sherman Alexie / editor, Leon Lewis, Appalachian State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lewis, Leon, editor.

Series:

Critical insights.

Critical insights Sherman Alexie

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Alexie, Sherman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 434 pages).

Place of Publication:

Pasadena, California : Salem Press, [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume includes a biographical sketch of Sherman Alexie which provides a guide to many of the most noteworthy incidents and circumstances of his life. Other essays explore impact of atrocities on his writing, the identity of the American Indian in modern writing, and the author's broadening perspective on the human condition. His poetry and contemporary critical reception are explored, as well as the role of music, storytelling and oral traditions in his work.

Contents:

On Sherman Alexie: American man of letters / Leon Lewis

Biography of Sherman Alexie / Georgie L. Donovan

The Paris review perspective / Barry Harbaugh for the Paris review

Navigating the river of the world: collective trauma in The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Tammy Wahpeconiah

"Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?": community and history in Sherman Alexie's writing / Michael Wilson

Articulations of difference: minority existence in white America in Sherman Alexie's Indian killer and Toni Morrison's The bluest eye / Constance Bracewell

Postmodern magic, traditional rage: the critical reception of Sherman Alexie's work / Tammy Wahpeconiah

Half child/half adult: Sherman Alexie's hybrid young adult fiction / Mark Vogel

The rhetorical, performative poetics of Sherman Alexie: critical reflections on affect, memory, and subjectivity / Cindy M. Spurlock

A rez kid gone urban: Sherman Alexie's recent short fiction / Richard Sax

Dialectic to dialogic: negotiating bicultural heritage in Sherman Alexie's sonnets / Carrie Etter

Sherman Alexie's indigenous blues / Douglas Ford

The exaggeration of despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / Gloria Bird

Reservation home movies: Sherman Alexie's poetry / Jennifer Gillan

A new road and a dead end in Sherman Alexie's Reservation blues / Scott Andrews

"The res has missed you": the fragmented reservation of the mind in The business of fancydancing / Meredith K. James

A bridge of difference: Sherman Alexie and the politics of mourning / Laura Arnold Leibman

A world of story-smoke: a conversation with Sherman Alexie / �se Nygren

Indian killer / Daniel Grassian

Sex and salmon: queer identities in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Lisa Tatonetti

The trans/historicity of trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian killer / Nancy Van Styvendale

Building cultural knowledge in the contemporary native novel / Sean Kicummah Teuton

Sherman Alexie: interview / Margo Rabb.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613665737

9781280688799

1280688793

9781587658761

1587658763

OCLC:

761928895