Native North America
Subtitle: critical and cultural perspectives : essays
By: by Patricia Monture Angus ... [et al.] ; edited by Renée Hulan.
Contributors: Monture-Angus, Patricia.; Hulan, Renée.
Publisher: ECW Press; distributed in the United States by LPC Group
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Toronto; Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Canadian literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; Indian literature -- Canada -- History and criticism.; Indian literature -- United States -- History and criticism.; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.; Indians in literature.; Indians of North America.
Description: Native North America describes the common struggle in diverse indigenous cultures to overcome the physical, psychological, and spiritual assault of colonialism, assimilation, and racism. The contributors to this wide-ranging collection of original essays share a commitment to resistance and to the spirit of survival so apparent in works of indigenous peoples. Gathering force from their diverse perspectives and regional backgrounds, the thirteen essayists unite experience and expertise.

Working against the conventional idea that Native North American literatures are primarily of anthropological and sociological value, they emphasize the importance of artistic expression in the life of native communities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Renée Hulan; title: Native America and the literary tradition / Patricia Monture Angus; title: Native American Indian literatures : narratives of survivance / Gerald Vizenor; title: Spirit and law in native American narratives / Clifford E. Trafzer; title: Nations within as seen from without : ten theses on German perspectives on the literature of Canada's first nations / Hartmut Lutz; title: Why native literature? / Armand Garnet Ruffo; title: "Great stories are told" : Canadian native novelists / Agnes Grant; title: Aboriginal writing in Canada and the anthology as commodity / Margery Fee; title: "There is nothing but white between the lines" : parallel colonial experiences of the Irish and aboriginal Canadians / Ron Marken; title: "That murderin' half-breed" : the abjectification of the mixedblood in Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Patricia Riley; title: Savage erotica exotica : media imagery of native women in North America / Marianette Jaimes-Guerrero; title: When the good guys don't wear white : narration, characterization, and ideology in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / Jo-Ann Thom; title: Beginner's mind : learning to read the Ghost dance songs / Charlotte Hussey; title: Memory alive : an inquiry into the uses of memory in Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault.