Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 302 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund -- Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti -- "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich -- "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta -- Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen -- This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox -- Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson -- The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's Indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson -- Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah -- "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James -- Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, Indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans -- Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson -- The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund |
Summary |
A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index |
Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Alexie, Sherman, 1966- -- Criticism and interpretation
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SUBJECT |
Alexie, Sherman, 1966- fast |
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Alexie, Sherman -- études diverses. rero |
Subject |
Indians in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Indians in literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Berglund, Jeff
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Roush, Jan
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LC no. |
2010023990 |
ISBN |
9781607819745 |
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1607819740 |
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