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Transatlantic voices : interpretations of Native North American literatures

A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - these essays chart the course of theories of Native literature, and delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies
eBook, English, ©2007
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, ©2007
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (xxxv, 298 pages)
9780803256453, 9786611092290, 9780803260344, 0803256450, 6611092293, 0803260342
182576314
"They have stories, don't they?": some doubts regarding an overused theorem / Hartwig Isernhagen
Plotting history: the function of history in Native North American literature / Bernadette Rigal-Cellard
Transculturality and transdifference: the case of Native America / Helmbrecht Breinig
American Indian novels of the 1930s: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded / Gaetano Prampolini
Transatlantic crossings: new directions in the contemporary Native American novel / Brigitte Georgi-Findlay
Of time and trauma: the possibilities for narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The woman who owned the shadows / Deborah L. Madsen
"Keep wide awake in the eyes": seeing eyes in Wendy Rose's poetry / Kathryn Napier Gray
Anamnesiac mappings: national histories and transnational healing in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / Rebecca Tillett
Vizenor's trickster theft: pretexts and paratexts of Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart / Paul Beekman Taylor
"June walked over it like water and came home": cross-cultural symbolism in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine and Tracks / Mark Shackleton
Encounters across time and space: the sacred, the profane, and the political in Linda Hogan's Power / Yonka Krasteva
Double translation: James Welch's Heartsong of Charging Elk / Ulla Haselstein
Clowns, Indians, and poodles: spectacular others in Louis Owens's I hear the train / Simone Pellerin
Oklahoma international: Jim Barnes, poetry, and the sites of imagination / A. Robert Lee
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English