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Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays /

A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Berglund, Jeff, Roush, Jan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.