Writing home
Subtitle: indigenous narratives of resistance
By: Michael D. Wilson.
Series: American Indian studies series; American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: East Lansing
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780870138188
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism; Indians in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Indigenous resistance fiction; title: Assimilation or appropriation? the idea of the center in N. Scott Momaday's Way to rainy mountain and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony; title: "Authenticity" and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony; title: The ethical use of indigenous traditions in contemporary literature; title: Writing a friendship dance : orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea; title: Bearheart : Gerald Vizenor's compassionate novel; title: Muted traditions and dialogic affirmation in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine; title: Perpetual metamorphosis : transformational journeys in Ray Young Bear's Black eagle child.