Toward a Native American Critical Theory / Elvira Pulitano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pulitano, Elvira, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 233 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : Nebraska University Press, 2003.

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. In her analysis Pulitano confronts key issues and questions: Is a distinctive way of reading and interpreting Native texts possible or needed? What is the relation between a Native American critical discourse and a more general postcolonial critical theory? Will Native critical theory be subsumed within postcolonial theory and homogenized as a colonial Other, or will it test postcolonial ideas against Native American problems and predicaments? And how can Native critical theory redefine Western styles of theory?.

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.

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