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Title The Routledge companion to Native American literature / edited by Deborah L. Madsen
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource
Series Routledge Literature Companions
Routledge companions to literature series.
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of figures; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Indigenous Contexts of "Native." "American." "Literature."; PART I Identities; 1 Indigenous American Literature: The Inter-American Hemispheric Perspective; 2 Alaska Native Literature; 3 American Imperialism and Pacific Literatures; 4 Clear-Cut: The Importance of Mixedblood Identities and the Promise of Native American Cosmopolitanism to Native American Literatures; 5 The Problem of Authenticity in Contemporary American "Gone Indian" Stories
6 Indigenous Writers and the Urban Indian Experience7 Recovering a Sovereign Erotic: Two-Spirit Writers "Reclaim a Name for Ourselves"; 8 Indigenous Feminisms; PART II Key Moments; 9 U.S.-Indian Treaty-Relations and Native American Treaty Literature; 10 The Marshall Trilogy and Its Legacies; 11 Native Letters and North-American Indian Wars; 12 Finding Voice in Changing Times: The Politics of Native Self-Representation during the Periods of Removal and Allotment; 13 Assimilative Schooling and Native American Literature; 14 Federalism Reconfigured: Native Narrations and the Indian New Deal
15 Embodied Jurisgenesis: NAGPRA, Dialogue, and Repatriation in American Indian Literature16 Native American Literature and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples; PART III Sovereignties; 17 "That We May Stand Up and Walk Ourselves": Indian Sovereignty and Diplomacy after the Revolutionary War; 18 "What Can I Tell Them That They Will Hear?": Environmental Sovereignty and American Indian Literature; 19 A Seat at the Table: Political Representation for Animals; 20 Where Food Grows on Water: Food Sovereignty and Indigenous North American Literatures
21 (Alter)Native Medicine and Health Sovereignty: Disease and Healing in Contemporary Native American Writings22 Religious Sovereignty and the Ghost Dance in Native American Fiction; 23 Native American Activism and Survival: Political, Legal, Cultural; 24 Identity, Culture, Community, and Nation: Literary Theory as Politics and Praxis; PART IV Traditions; 25 Indigenous Literacy and Language; 26 Native American Voices in Colonial North America; 27 Early Native American Writing; 28 The Historical and Literary Role of Folklore, Storytelling, and the Oral Tradition in Native American Literatures
29 Spinning the Binary: Visual Cultures and Literary Aesthetics30 Indigenous Hermeneutics through Ceremony: Song, Language, and Dance; 31 Native American Intellectuals: Moundbuilders of Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow; PART V Literary Forms; 32 Crossing the Bering Strait: Transpacific Turns and Native Literatures; 33 Reverse Assimilation: Native Appropriations of Euro-American Conventions; 34 From As-Told-To Stories to Indigenous Communal Narratives; 35 Native Short Story: Authorships, Styles; 36 "A New Legacy for Future Generations": Native North American Performance and Drama
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed on October 8, 2015)
Subject American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
American literature -- Indian authors -- Themes, motives
Indians in literature.
Group identity -- United States
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Indians of North America -- Social conditions.
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Indian authors
American literature -- Indian authors -- Themes, motives
Civilization
Group identity
Indians in literature
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity
Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
Indians of North America -- Social conditions
Indians of North America -- Social life and customs
SUBJECT United States -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139934
Subject United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Madsen, Deborah L., editor
ISBN 9781317693192
1317693191
9781317693185
1317693183
9781317693178
1317693175
Other Titles Companion to Native American literature
Native American literature