Telling the stories : essays on American Indian literatures and cultures / edited by Elizabeth Hoffman Nelson & Malcolm A. Nelson.

SeriesAmerican Indian studies ; vol. 7
American Indian studies v. 7. ^A356875
Contents Mother tongues and native voices: linguistic fantasies in the age of the encounter / Scott Manning Stevens -- Alaska Haida narratives: maintaining cultural identity through subsistence / Jeane C. Breinig -- The act of storytelling and gender dynamics in "Kaweshawa": a study of the Watunna, the Makiritare creation myth / Heatherly Brooke Bucher -- These were Mari Sandoz's Sioux / Malcolm A. Nelson -- Rewriting ethnography: the embedded texts in Leslie Silko's Ceremony / Robert M. Nelson -- Constituting and preserving self through writing / Sidner J. Larson.
Contents Perception in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded: a postcolonial reading / Jeri Zulli -- Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony / Conrad Shumaker -- Western fictions in Welch's Fools Crow: languages of landscape and culture / Blanca Chester -- Native American sleuths: following in the footsteps of the Indian guides? / John K. Donaldson -- King and kodachrome: Green Grass, Running Water's models for non-native participation / Maurice Collins -- Dialectic to dialogic: negotiating bicultural heritage in Sherman Alexie's sonnets / Carrie Etter.
Contents Tales of Burning Love: Louise Erdich's "Scarlet Letter" / Tom Matchie.
General note"The essays in this collection were given at the 1997 American Culture Association's meeting in San Antonio, Texas"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 99030804
ISBN0820439541 (pbk.)

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