Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse.
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Gerald Vizenor is Professor of American Studies and Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China (winner of the American Book Award); Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World; and Chancers: A Novel. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Native American Indian histories and literatures, oral and written, are imagined from "wisps of narratives." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social science monologues, mythic verism, comic holotrope, agonistic imagination, evil gambler, terminal creeds, comic sign, trickster narratives, tribal literatures, trickster novel, trickster discourse, communal sign, tribal trickster, tribal narratives, tribal discourse, comic discourse, tribal tales, instrumental language, semiotic sign, rigid ego, love medicine, word hospital, implied reader, magic horse, implied author Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Native American, American Indian, Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, The Surrounded, University of Minnesota Press, June Kashpaw, Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint Louis Bearheart, Johns Hopkins University Press, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerry Nanapush, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Lulu Lamartine, Roland Barthes, Saint Plumero, Umberto Eco, University of New Mexico Press, Columbia University Press, Michael Holquist, Michel Foucault New!
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Native American Indian histories and literatures, oral and written, are imagined from "wisps of narratives." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
social science monologues, mythic verism, comic holotrope, agonistic imagination, evil gambler, terminal creeds, comic sign, trickster narratives, tribal literatures, trickster novel, trickster discourse, communal sign, tribal trickster, tribal narratives, tribal discourse, comic discourse, tribal tales, instrumental language, semiotic sign, rigid ego, love medicine, word hospital, implied reader, magic horse, implied author Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Native American, American Indian, Rainy Mountain, House Made of Dawn, Scott Momaday, Gerald Vizenor, The Surrounded, University of Minnesota Press, June Kashpaw, Mikhail Bakhtin, Saint Louis Bearheart, Johns Hopkins University Press, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerry Nanapush, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Lulu Lamartine, Roland Barthes, Saint Plumero, Umberto Eco, University of New Mexico Press, Columbia University Press, Michael Holquist, Michel Foucault New!
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- Love Medicine : A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Louise Erdrich on 16 pages
- The Way to Rainy Mountain by N. Scott Momaday on 14 pages
- House Made of Dawn (Perennial Classics) by N. Scott Momaday on 13 pages
- The Man Made of Words: Essays, Stories, Passages by N. Scott Momaday on 7 pages
- The Beet Queen: A Novel by Louise Erdrich on 5 pages
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- Dreams of Fiery Stars: The Transformations of Native American Fiction (Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction) by Catherine Rainwater on 4 pages
- Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by Allan Chavkin on page 137, page 190, and Back Matter
- Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series) by James Ruppert in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Trickster Lives: Culture and Myth in American Fiction by Jeanne Campbell Reesman on page 12, page 163, and Back Matter
- Imag(in)ing Otherness: Filmic Visions of Living Together (American Academy of Religion Cultural Criticism Series) by S. Brent Plate on page 36, and Back Matter
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