Native American writers / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom

Published: New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, [2010]
Copyright Date: ©2010
Edition: New ed.
Physical Description: vi, 285 pages ; 25 cm.
Additional Creators: Bloom, Harold

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Bloom's modern critical views

Contents

Introduction / Harold Bloom -- The stories we tell: Louise Erdrich's identity narratives / E. Shelley Reid -- "Thinking like an Indian": exploring American Indian views of American history / Frederick E. Hoxie -- Falls of desire / leaps of faith: religious syncretism in Louise Erdrich's and Joy Harjo's mixed-blood poetry / Sheila Hassell Hughes -- Bear, outlaw, and storyteller: American frontier mythology and the ethnic subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday / Jason W. Stevens -- The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The lone ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Joseph L. Coulombe -- Revolutionary enunciatory spaces: ghost dancing, transatlantic travel, and modernist arson in Gardens in the dunes / A. M. Regier -- Zitkala-Sä and the problem of regionalism: nations, narratives, and critical traditions / Gary Totten -- Poem and tale as double helix in Joy Harjo's A map to the next world / Angelique V. Nixon -- Oral narrative and Ojibwa story cycles in Louise Erdrich's The birchbark house and The game of silence / Elizabeth Gargano -- Extending root and branch: community regeneration in the petitions of Samson Occom / Caroline Wigginton -- Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction / Joseph L. Coulombe.

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9781604135916 (hardcover : alk paper)
1604135913 (hardcover : alk paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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