Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Turning west : cosmopolitanism and American Indian literary nationalism / Jace Weaver -- Ethics and axes : insider-outsider approaches to Native American literature / James Mackay -- N. Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn" and myths of the victim / Alan R. Velie -- On the cutting edge : Leslie Marmon Silko / Rebecca Tillett -- The use of myth in James Welch's novels / Alan R. Velie -- "The event of distance" : James Welch's place in space and time / Kathryn W. Shanley -- Gerald Vizenor on imagination / Kathryn Hume -- "One story hinging into the next" : the singular achievement of Louise Erdrich's interrelated novels / Connie A. Jacobs -- Thomas King : shifting shapes to tell another story / Carol Miller -- Thriller survivance : the subersive resistance of Louis Owens / Linda Lizut Helstern -- "We've been stuck in place since 'House Made of Dawn'" : Sherman Alexie and the Native American renaissance / John Gamber -- A postmodern turn / Chris Lalonde -- Speak memory : the remembrances of contemporary Native American poetry / A. Robert Lee -- The re-membered earth : place and displacement in Native American poetries / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Telling you now : the imagination within modern Native American autobiography / A. Robert Lee -- Theater renaissance : resituating the place of drama in the Native American renaissance / Gina Valentino -- Reading around the dotted line : from the contact zones to the heartlands of First Nations/Canadian literatures / David Stirrup -- Tribal renaissance / Kenneth Lincoln.