Native American writers
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Blooms's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism; Blooms Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781604135916
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; Indians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: The stories we tell: Louise Erdrich's identity narratives / E. Shelley Reid; title: "Thinking like an Indian": exploring American Indian views of American history / Frederick E. Hoxie; title: Falls of desire / leaps of faith: religious syncretism in Louise Erdrich's and Joy Harjo's mixed-blood poetry / Sheila Hassell Hughes; title: Bear, outlaw, and storyteller: American frontier mythology and the ethnic subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday / Jason W. Stevens; title: 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; title: Revolutionary enunciatory spaces: ghost dancing, transatlantic travel, and modernist arson in Gardens in the dunes / A. M. Regier; title: Zitkala-Sä and the problem of regionalism: nations, narratives, and critical traditions / Gary Totten; title: Poem and tale as double helix in Joy Harjo's A map to the next world / Angelique V. Nixon; title: Oral narrative and Ojibwa story cycles in Louise Erdrich's The birchbark house and The game of silence / Elizabeth Gargano; title: Extending root and branch: community regeneration in the petitions of Samson Occom / Caroline Wigginton; title: Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction / Joseph L. Coulombe.