Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
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| Language: | English |
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Salt Lake City :
University of Utah Press,
2010.
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| Physical Description: | xxxix, 302 pages |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: "imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund
- Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti
- "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich
- "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta
- Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen
- This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox
- Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson
- The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
- The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson
- Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah
- "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James
- Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans
- Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey
- Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson
- The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.