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Author :A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff Publisher :New York : Modern Language Association of America ISBN 13 :9780873521918 Total Pages :200 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (219 download)
Book Synopsis American Indian Literatures by : A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
Download or read book American Indian Literatures written by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and published by New York : Modern Language Association of America. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of Native American literature from 1772 to 1989 describes types of oral literatures and life histories and evaluates secondary works in the field.
Author :Susan Berry Brill de Ram’rez Publisher :University of Arizona Press ISBN 13 :9780816519576 Total Pages :276 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (195 download)
Book Synopsis Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition by : Susan Berry Brill de Ram’rez
Download or read book Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition written by Susan Berry Brill de Ram’rez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A literary study of Native American literature analyzes its sources in oral tradition, offering a theory of "conversive" critical theory as a way of understanding Indian literature's themes and concerns.
Book Synopsis American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism by : Joni Adamson
Download or read book American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice, and Ecocriticism written by Joni Adamson and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much contemporary American Indian literature examines the relationship between humans and the land, most Native authors do not set their work in the "pristine wilderness" celebrated by mainstream nature writers. Instead, they focus on settings such as reservations, open-pit mines, and contested borderlands. Drawing on her own teaching experience among Native Americans and on lessons learned from such recent scenes of confrontation as Chiapas and Black Mesa, Joni Adamson explores why what counts as "nature" is often very different for multicultural writers and activist groups than it is for mainstream environmentalists. This powerful book is one of the first to examine the intersections between literature and the environment from the perspective of the oppressions of race, class, gender, and nature, and the first to review American Indian literature from the standpoint of environmental justice and ecocriticism. By examining such texts as Sherman Alexie's short stories and Leslie Marmon Silko's novel Almanac of the Dead, Adamson contends that these works, in addition to being literary, are examples of ecological criticism that expand Euro-American concepts of nature and place. Adamson shows that when we begin exploring the differences that shape diverse cultural and literary representations of nature, we discover the challenge they present to mainstream American culture, environmentalism, and literature. By comparing the work of Native authors such as Simon Ortiz with that of environmental writers such as Edward Abbey, she reveals opportunities for more multicultural conceptions of nature and the environment. More than a work of literary criticism, this is a book about the search to find ways to understand our cultural and historical differences and similarities in order to arrive at a better agreement of what the human role in nature is and should be. It exposes the blind spots in early ecocriticism and shows the possibilities for building common groundÑ a middle placeÑ where writers, scholars, teachers, and environmentalists might come together to work for social and environmental change.
Book Synopsis American Indian Literature by : Alan R. Velie
Download or read book American Indian Literature written by Alan R. Velie and published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and poetry by Paula Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a rich array of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Maurice Kenny.
Book Synopsis Native American Perspectives on Literature and History by : Alan R. Velie
Download or read book Native American Perspectives on Literature and History written by Alan R. Velie and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "James Ruppert explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans. Helen Jaskoski analyzes the genre of autoethnography, or Indian historical writing, in an Ottawa writer's account of a smallpox epidemic. Kimberly Blaeser, a Chippewa, writes about how Indian writers reappropriate their history and stories of their land and people. Robert Allen Warrior, an Osage, examines the ideas of the leading Indian philosopher in America, Vine Deloria, Jr., who calls for a return to traditional tribal religions. Robert Berner exposes the incomplete myths and false legends pervading Indian views of American history. Alan Velie discusses the issue of historical objectivity in two Indian historical novels, James Welch's Fools Crow and Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus. Kurt M. Peters relates how Laguna Indians retained their culture and identity while living in the boxcars of the Santa Fe Railroad Indian Village at Richmond, California. Juana Maria Rodriguez examines power relations in Gerald Vizenor's narrative of a Dakota Indian accused of murder in 1967, "Thomas White Hawk." Finally, Gerald Vizenor, a Chippewa, discusses Indian conceptions of identity in contemporary America, including simulations he calls "postindian identity."".
Download or read book Other Words written by Jace Weaver and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eloh’, a Cherokee word, is usually translated by anthropologists as "religion," but it also simultaneously encompasses history, culture, knowledge, law, and land. In this provocative work, Jace Weaver interlaces these seemingly disparate meanings to form a coherent approach to Native American Studies. In nineteen interrelated chapters, Weaver presents a range of experiences shared by native peoples in the Americas, from the distant past to the uncertain future. He examines Indian creative output, from oral tradition to the postmodern wordplay of Gerald Vizenor, and brings to light previously overlooked texts. Weaver also tackles up-to-the-minute issues, including environmental crises, Native American spirituality, repatriation of Indian remains and cultural artifacts, and international human rights.
Book Synopsis The Book of the American Indian by : Hamlin Garland
Download or read book The Book of the American Indian written by Hamlin Garland and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these and other stories written from 1890-1905, Hamlin Garland sought to capture his vision of the spirit of the Native American Indian in transition. Based on ten years of visits to reservations in the American West, these stories are of interest for readers today in part because they illustrate a sincere and well-intentioned white reformer coming to understand a culture radically at odds with his own - and discovering in the process that his own culture is less "advanced" than he had supposed." "This edition reprints the text and illustrations from the 1923 printing as well as two of Garland's essays indicting the treatment of Indians. An introduction places the stories in the historical context of Garland's life and times."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction by : James Ruppert
Download or read book Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction written by James Ruppert and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediation is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his important new theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich - Ruppert analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage, guiding Native and non-Native readers alike to a different and expanded understanding of each other's worlds. While Native American writers may criticize white society, revealing its past and present injustices, their emphasis, Ruppert argues, is on healing, survival, and continuance. Their fiction aims to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness. To that end they articulate the perspectives and values of competing world views. In particular they create characters who manifest what Ruppert calls "multiple identities" - determined by both Native and non-Native perceptions of the self. These writers use a variety of narrative techniques deriving from different cultural traditions. They might incorporate Native oral storytelling techniques, adapting them to written form, or they might reconstruct Native mythologies, investing them with new meaning and relevance by applying them to contemporary situations. As novel-writers, they also include features more characteristic of western European writing - such as the omniscient narrator or the detective-story plot.
Book Synopsis Bradford's Indian Book by : Betty Booth Donohue
Download or read book Bradford's Indian Book written by Betty Booth Donohue and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Offers a powerful revisioning of the genesis of American literary history, revealing that from its earliest moments, American literature owes its distinctive shape and texture to the determining influence of indigenous thought and culture."--Joanna Brooks, San Diego State University "Partly a close, detailed analysis of the specific text and partly a broader analysis of Native identity, literary influences, and spiritual affiliation, the book makes a sophisticated and compelling claim for the way Indian influences permeate this Puritan text."--Hilary E. Wyss, Auburn University William Bradford, a leader among the Pilgrims, carefully recorded the voyage of the Mayflower and the daily life of Plymouth Colony in a work--part journal, part history--he titled Of Plimoth Plantation. This remarkable document is the authoritative chronicle of the Pilgrims' experiences as well as a powerful testament to the cultural and literary exchange that existed between the newly arrived Europeans and the Native Americans who were their neighbors and friends. It is well-documented that Native Americans lived within the confines of Plymouth Colony, and for a time Bradford shared a house with Tisquantum (Squanto), a Patuxet warrior and medicine man. In Bradford's Indian Book, Betty Booth Donohue traces the physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional, and theological interactions between New England's Native peoples and the European newcomers as manifested in the literary record. Donohue identifies American Indian poetics and rhetorical strategies as well as Native intellectual and ceremonial traditions present in the text. She also draws on ethnohistorical scholarship, consultation with tribal intellectuals, and her own experiences to examine the ways Bradford incorporated Native American philosophy and culture into his writing. Bradford's Indian Book promises to reshape and re-energize our understanding of standard canonical texts, reframing them within the intellectual and cultural traditions indigenous to the continent. Written partly in the Cherokee syllabary to express pan-Indian concepts that do not translate well to English, Donohue's invigorating, provocative analysis demonstrates how indigenous oral and thought traditions have influenced American literature from the very beginning down to the present day. Betty Booth Donohue is an independent scholar and a member of the Cherokee Nation.
Book Synopsis Literatures of the American Indian by : A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
Download or read book Literatures of the American Indian written by A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
Download or read book Kitchi written by Alana Robson and published by Banana Books. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He is forever and ever here in spirit" An adventure. A magic necklace. Brotherhood. Six-year-old Forrest feels lost now that his big brother Kitchi is no longer here. He misses him every day and clings onto a necklace that reminds him of Kitchi. One day, the necklace comes to life. Forrest is taken on a magical adventure, where he meets a colourful cast of characters, including a beautiful, yet mysterious fox, who soon becomes his best friend. www.kitchithespiritfox.com
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature by : Jennifer McClinton-Temple
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Indian Literature written by Jennifer McClinton-Temple and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 1131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an encyclopedia of American Indian literature in an alphabetical format listing authors and their works.
Book Synopsis Literatures of the American Indian by : A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
Download or read book Literatures of the American Indian written by A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the history, evolution, and culture of the American Indians, discussing both oral and written literature.
Book Synopsis Dictionary of Native American Literature by : Andrew Wiget
Download or read book Dictionary of Native American Literature written by Andrew Wiget and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994-10-25 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary, produced by the Association for the Study of American Indian Literature, contains 40 critical-biographical essays on various writers spanning two time periods: the historical emergence of Native American writers (to 1800) and the Native American Renaissance (1967-).
Book Synopsis Literature of the American Indians by : Abraham Chapman
Download or read book Literature of the American Indians written by Abraham Chapman and published by New York : New American Library. This book was released on 1975 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, drawing on Indian memories, symbolism and critical evaluations, adds to our understanding of both the traditional and contemporary literature of and about the American Indian. The whole spectrum of thought about Indian literature is covered here, starting with a Seneca legend on the origin of storytelling; progressing to nineteenth century commentaries by writers such as the Christian convert George Copway (Kah-Ge-Ga-Bowh), novelist William Gilmore Simms, and pioneer anthropologist Daniel G. Brinton; and finally presenting modern-day views by Tristram P. Coffin, Kenneth Rexroth, N. Scott Momaday, Jorge Luis Borges, and Paula Gunn Allen. The subject of Indian humor is delightfully examined by Vine Deloria, Jr., and the now classic texts of scholars such as Franz Boas and Constance Rourke are also included.
Book Synopsis Literature of the American Indian by : Thomas Edward Sanders
Download or read book Literature of the American Indian written by Thomas Edward Sanders and published by Macmillan College. This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Indian Stories by : Zitkala-Sa
Download or read book American Indian Stories written by Zitkala-Sa and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-28 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Indian Stories is a collection of stories by Zitkála-Šá. The author was a Sioux historian and recounts here several colorful legends and tales from American Indian oral tradition.
