The invention of Native American literature / Robert Dale Parker.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Parker, Robert Dale, 1953-
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
American literature > Indigenous authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Indigenous peoples of North America > Intellectual life.
Indigenous peoples in literature.
Physical Description:xi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Tradition, invention, and aesthetics in Native American literature and literary criticism
  • Nothing to do : John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and restless young Indian men
  • Who shot the sheriff : storytelling, Indian identity, and the marketplace of masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The surrounded
  • Text, lines, and videotape : reinventing oral stories as written poems
  • The existential surfboard and the dream of balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything" : the poetry of Ray A. Young Bear
  • The reinvention of restless young men : storytelling and poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River
  • Material choices : American fictions and the post-canon.