The invention of Native American literature / Robert Dale Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, Robert Dale, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians in literature.

Indians of North America--Intellectual life.

Indians of North America.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature.

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

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 244 p. :) ill. ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

CHAPTER 1. Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature and Literary Criticism

CHAPTER 2. Nothing to Do:John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and Restless Young Indian Men

CHAPTER 3. M'ho Shot the Sheriff Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded

CHAPTER 4. Text, Lines, and Videotape: Reinventing Oral Stories as Written Poems

CHAPTER 5. The Existential Surfboard and the Dream of Balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything": The Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear

CHAPTER 6. The Reinvention of Restless Young Men: Storytelling and Poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River

CHAPTER 7. Material Choices: American Fictions and the Post-canon

APPENDIX. Legs, Sex, Orgies, Speed, and Alcohol, After Strange Gods: John Joseph Mathews's Lost Generation Letter

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501724664

1501724665

OCLC:

1080550379