| Description |
1 online resource (266 pages) |
| Contents |
Contemporary creative writing and ancient oral tradition / Ernestine Hayes -- Letter to a just-starting-out Indian writer - and maybe to myself / Stephen Graham Jones -- Funny, you don't look like (my preconceived ideas of) an essay / Chip Livingston -- Nizhoní dóó 'a'ani' dóó até'él'í dóó ayoo'o'oni (beauty & memory & abuse & love) / Bojan Louis -- Fairy tales, trauma, writing into dissociation / Sasha LaPointe -- Tuolumne / Deborah A. Miranda -- I know I'll go / Terese Marie Mailhot -- Little mountain woman / Terese Marie Mailhot -- Fear to forget & fear to forgive: or an attempt at writing a travel essay / Bojan Louis -- Fertility rites / Tiffany Midge -- "And So I Anal Douche While Kesha's "Praying" Plays from My Iphone on Repeat" / Billy-Ray Belcourt -- The Great Elk / Ruby Hansen Murray -- Real romantic / Eden Robinson -- The trickster surfs the floods / Natanya Ann Pulley -- The way of wounds / Natanya Ann Pulley -- To the man who gave me cancer / Adrienne Keene -- Self-portrait with parts missing and/or smeared / Michael Wasson -- Critical poly 100s / Kim Tallbear -- Pain scale treaties / Laura Da' -- Caribou people / Siku Allooloo -- Part one: redeeming the English language (acquisition) series / Tiffany Midge -- Apocalypse logic / Elissa Washuta -- Women in the Fracklands: on water, land, bodies, and Standing Rock / Toni Jensen -- Goodbye Once upon a time / Byron F. Aspaas -- I am chopping ivory or bone / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- Blood running / Sasha LaPointe -- A mind spread out on the ground / Alicia Elliott |
| Summary |
Just as a basket’s purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket. Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 20, 2019) |
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American literature -- Indian authors.
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Indians of North America -- Literary collections
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Creative nonfiction, American.
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American literature -- 21st century
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Native American
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Indians of North America
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American literature
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American literature -- Indian authors
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Creative nonfiction, American
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Literary collections
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Washuta, Elissa, editor.
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Warburton, Theresa, editor.
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| LC no. |
2018059193 |
| ISBN |
9780295745770 |
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0295745770 |
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