Native North America : critical and cultural perspectives : essays /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Monture, Patricia A. (Patricia Anne), Hulan, Renée
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto : ECW Press ; [1999]
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 in literature. Indians of North America.

Table of Contents:

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