Toward a Native American critical theory
By: Elvira Pulitano.
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life; Criticism -- United States; Indians in literature
Description: "Toward a Native American Critical Theory articulates the foundations and boundaries of a distinctive Native American critical theory in this postcolonial era. In the first book-length study devoted to this subject, Elvira Pulitano offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of works by noted Native writers Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor."

"Unlike Western interpretations of Native American literatures and cultures in which external critical methodologies are imposed on Native texts, ultimately silencing the primary voices of the texts themselves, Pulitano's work examines critical material generated from within the Native contexts to propose a different approach to Native literature. Pulitano argues that the distinctiveness of Native American critical theory can be found in its aggressive blending and reimagining of oral tradition and Native epistemologies on the written page - a powerful, complex mediation that can stand on its own yet effectively subsume and transform non-Native critical theoretical strategies."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-228) and index.