The invention of Native American literature / Robert Dale Parker
- Author
- Parker, Robert Dale, 1953-
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Contents
- Tradition, invention, and aesthetics in Native American literature and literary criticism -- Nothing to do : John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and restless young Indian men -- Who shot the sheriff : storytelling, Indian identity, and the marketplace of masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded -- Text, lines, and videotape : reinventing oral stories as written poems -- The existential surfboard and the dream of balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything" : the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear -- The reinvention of restless young men : storytelling and poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River -- Material choices : American fictions and the post-canon.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 080144067X (acid-free paper)
0801488044 (pbk. : acid-free paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-237) and index.
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