Sherman Alexie
Subtitle: a collection of critical essays
By: edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush
Publisher: University of Utah Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9781607810087
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Indians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.269-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie  -- Jeff Berglund; title: Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing  -- Lisa Tatonetti; title: "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor  -- Philip Heldrich; title: "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire"  -- Elizabeth Archuleta; title: Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work  -- P. Jane Hafen; title: This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals  -- James H. Cox; title: Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals  -- Angelica Lawson; title: The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics  -- Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez; title: The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows  -- Nancy J. Peterson; title: Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics  -- Patrice Hollrah; title: "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer  -- Meredith James; title: Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world  -- Stephen F. Evans; title: Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians"  -- Margaret O'Shaughnessey; title: Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian  -- Jan Johnson; title: The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship -- Jeff Berglund.