The invention of Native American literature
By: Robert Dale Parker.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.; Indians in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.
Table of contents: title: Tradition, invention, and aesthetics in Native American literature and literary criticism; title: Nothing to do : John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and Restless young Indian men; title: Who shot the sheriff : storytelling, Indian identity, and the marketplace of masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded; title: Text, lines, and videotape : reinventing oral stories as written poems; title: The existential surfboard and the dream of balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything" : the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear; title: The reinvention of restless young men : storytelling and poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River; title: Material choices : American fictions and the post-canon.