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description: Just as a basket's purpose determines its materials weave and shape so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material weave and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket.Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers including Stephen Graham Jones Deborah Miranda Terese Marie Mailhot Billy-Ray Belcourt Eden Robinson and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious creative and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together they offer responses to broader questions of materiality orality spatiality and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.
language: English
title: Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers
publisher: U Washington Press