Toward a Native American critical theory / Elvira Pulitano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulitano, Elvira, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in literature.

Criticism--United States.

Criticism.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English.

Summary:

"Toward a Native American Critical Theory articulates the foundations and boundaries of a distinctive Native American critical theory in this postcolonial era. In the first book-length study devoted to this subject, Elvira Pulitano offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of works by noted Native writers Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor."

"Unlike Western interpretations of Native American literatures and cultures in which external critical methodologies are imposed on Native texts, ultimately silencing the primary voices of the texts themselves, Pulitano's work examines critical material generated from within the Native contexts to propose a different approach to Native literature. Pulitano argues that the distinctiveness of Native American critical theory can be found in its aggressive blending and reimagining of oral tradition and Native epistemologies on the written page - a powerful, complex mediation that can stand on its own yet effectively subsume and transform non-Native critical theoretical strategies."--Jacket.

Contents:

Back to a woman-centered universe : the gynosophical perspective of Paula Gunn Allen's critical narratives

Intellectual sovereignty and red stick theory : the nativist approach of Robert Allen Warrior and Craig S. Womack

Crossreading texts, bridging cultures : the dialogic approach of Greg Sarris and Louis Owens

Liberative stories and strategies of survivance : Gerald Vizenor's trickster hermeneutics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-228) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786610423644

9781280423642

1280423641

9780803203877

080320387X

OCLC:

53157754