Writing home : indigenous narratives of resistance /

Writing home : indigenous narratives of resistance /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Michael D., 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2008]
Series:American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.)
Subjects:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. Indigenous resistance fiction
  • Assimilation or appropriation? the idea of the center in N. Scott Momaday's Way to rainy mountain and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
  • "Authenticity" and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
  • The ethical use of indigenous traditions in contemporary literature
  • Writing a friendship dance : orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea
  • Bearheart : Gerald Vizenor's compassionate novel
  • Muted traditions and dialogic affirmation in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine
  • Perpetual metamorphosis : transformational journeys in Ray Young Bear's Black eagle child.