The invention of Native American literature / Robert Dale Parker.

Author/creator Parker, Robert Dale, 1953-
Format Book
Publication InfoIthaca : Cornell University Press, 2003.
Descriptionxi, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
American literature--Indian authors. --History and criticism.
American literature--20th century. --History and criticism.
Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-237) and index.
LCCN 2002010492
ISBN080144067X (acid-free paper)
ISBN0801488044 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS153.I52 P37 2003 ✔ Available Place Hold