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Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,78 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780878056521

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Louise Erdrich and Michael Dorris, the most prominent writers of Native American descent, collaborate on all their works. In these interviews, conducted both separately and jointly, they discuss how their writing moves from conception to completion and how The Beet Queen, Tracks, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, and The Crown of Columbus have been enhanced by both their artistic and their matrimonial union. Being of mixed blood and having lived in both white and Native American worlds, they give an original perspective on American society. Sometimes with humor and always with refreshing candor, their discussions undermine the damaging stereotypes of Native Americans. Some of the interviews focus on their nonfiction book, The Broken Cord, which recounts the struggle to solve their adopted son's health problems from fetal alcohol syndrome. Included are two recent interviews published here for the first time. In this collection, Erdrich and Dorris tell why they have chosen to write about many varying subjects and of why they refuse to be imprisoned in a literary ghetto of writers whose only subjects are Native Americans.

Author : Kenneth Lincoln
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826341709

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Speak Like Singing honors talk-song visions for all relatives and seeks to plumb, if not to reconcile, Native and American poetics, tribal chorus, and solitary vision.

Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 1984-02-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780805010473

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Poems explore the nature of love, faith, and courage and portray the experiences of a wife in a small town

Author : Joy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2005-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521822831

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An informative and wide-ranging overview of Native American literature from the 1770s to present day.

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781617034626

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A handbook for interpreting William Faulkner's most violent and shocking novel

Author : Jennifer McClinton-Temple
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1566 pages
File Size : 39,86 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1438140576

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Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.

Author : Seema Kurup
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2015-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611176247

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In Understanding Louise Erdrich, Seema Kurup offers a comprehensive analysis of this critically acclaimed Native American novelist whose work stands as a testament to the struggle of the Ojibwe people to survive colonization and contemporary reservation life. Kurup traces in Erdrich's oeuvre the theme of colonization, both historical and cultural, and its lasting effects, starting with the various novels of the Love Medicine epic, the National Book Award-winning The Round House, The Birchbark House series of children's literature, the memoirs The Blue Jays Dance and Books and Island in Ojibwe Country, and selected poetry. Kurup elucidates Erdrich's historical context, thematic concerns, and literary strategies through close readings, offering an introductory approach to Erdrich and revealing several entry points for further investigation. Kurup asserts that Erdrich's writing has emerged not out of a postcolonial identity but from the ongoing condition of colonization faced by Native Americans in the United States, which is manifested in the very real and contemporary struggle for sovereignty and basic civil rights. Exploring the ways in which Erdrich moves effortlessly from trickster humor to searing pathos and from the personal to the political, Kurup takes up the complex issues of cultural identity, assimilation, and community in Erdrich's writing. Kurup shows that Erdrich offers readers poignant and complex portraits of Native American lives in vibrant, three-dimensional, and poetic prose while simultaneously bearing witness to the abiding strength and grace of the Ojibwe people and their presence and participation in the history of the United States.

Author : Dean Rader
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0292723997

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From Sherman Alexie's films to the poetry and fiction of Louise Erdrich and Leslie Marmon Silko to the paintings of Jaune Quick-To-See Smith and the sculpture of Edgar Heap of Birds, Native American movies, literature, and art have become increasingly influential, garnering critical praise and enjoying mainstream popularity. Recognizing that the time has come for a critical assessment of this exceptional artistic output and its significance to American Indian and American issues, Dean Rader offers the first interdisciplinary examination of how American Indian artists, filmmakers, and writers tell their own stories. Beginning with rarely seen photographs, documents, and paintings from the Alcatraz Occupation in 1969 and closing with an innovative reading of the National Museum of the American Indian, Rader initiates a conversation about how Native Americans have turned to artistic expression as a means of articulating cultural sovereignty, autonomy, and survival. Focusing on figures such as author/director Sherman Alexie (Flight, Face, and Smoke Signals), artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, director Chris Eyre (Skins), author Louise Erdrich (Jacklight, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse), sculptor Edgar Heap of Birds, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, sculptor Allen Houser, filmmaker and actress Valerie Red Horse, and other writers including Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and David Treuer, Rader shows how these artists use aesthetic expression as a means of both engagement with and resistance to the dominant U.S. culture. Raising a constellation of new questions about Native cultural production, Rader greatly increases our understanding of what aesthetic modes of resistance can accomplish that legal or political actions cannot, as well as why Native peoples are turning to creative forms of resistance to assert deeply held ethical values.