Reasoning together : the native critics collective

Acoose, Janice. (Added Author). Womack, Craig S. (Added Author). Justice, Daniel Heath. (Added Author). Teuton, Christopher B. (Added Author).

Summary: This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous , sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Bringing twelve distinguished authors into conversation, Reasoning Together is an interactive work. Each essay comments on the others so that contributions derive added strength from their companion pieces.

Record details

ISBN: 9780806138879 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0806138874 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vi, 451 p. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-430) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

A single decade: book-length native literary criticism between 1986 and 1997 / Craig S. Womack -- The callout: writing American Indian politics / Sean Teuton -- "Who shall gainsay our decision?": Choctaw literary critism in 1830 / Phillip Carroll Morgan -- "Go away, water!": Kinship criticism and the decolonization imperative / Daniel Heath Justice -- Land claims, identity claims: mapping indigenous feminism in literary critism and in Winona LaDuke's Last standing woman / Cheryl Suzack -- Theorizing American Indian literature: applying oral concepts to written traditions / Christopher B. Teuton -- Honoring Ni'Wahkomakanak / Janice Acoose -- Digging at the roots: location an ethical, native criticism / Lisa Brooks -- Of one blood: an argument for relations and regionality in Native American Literary studies / Tol Foster -- Samson Occom as writing instructor: the search for an interibal rhetoric / Kimberly Roppolo -- Blind bread and the business of theory making, by embarrassed grief / LeAnne Howe -- Your skin is the map: the theoretical challenge of Joy Harjo's erotic poetics / Robert Warrior -- Theorizing American Indian Experience / Craig S. Womack.