Native North America : critical and cultural perspectives : essays

Monture-Angus, Patricia. (Added Author). Hulan, Renée. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1550223763 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9781550223767 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
274 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : ECW Press ; Chicago, Ill. : distributed in the United States by LPC Group, c1999.

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Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Renée Hulan -- Native America and the literary tradition / Patricia Monture Angus -- Native American Indian literatures : narratives of survivance / Gerald Vizenor -- Spirit and law in native American narratives / Clifford E. Trafzer -- Nations within as seen from without : ten theses on German perspectives on the literature of Canada's first nations / Hartmut Lutz -- Why native literature? / Armand Garnet Ruffo -- "Great stories are told" : Canadian native novelists / Agnes Grant -- Aboriginal writing in Canada and the anthology as commodity / Margery Fee -- "There is nothing but white between the lines" : parallel colonial experiences of the Irish and aboriginal Canadians / Ron Marken -- "That murderin' half-breed" : the abjectification of the mixedblood in Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer / Patricia Riley -- Savage erotica exotica : media imagery of native women in North America / Marianette Jaimes-Guerrero -- When the good guys don't wear white : narration, characterization, and ideology in Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the dead / Jo-Ann Thom -- Beginner's mind : learning to read the Ghost dance songs / Charlotte Hussey -- Memory alive : an inquiry into the uses of memory in Marilyn Dumont, Jeannette Armstrong, Louise Halfe, and Joy Harjo / Jeanne Perreault.