Sherman Alexie a collection of critical essays / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.

Other author Berglund, Jeff.
Other author Roush, Jan.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoSalt Lake City : University of Utah Press,
Descriptionxxxix, 302 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund -- Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti -- "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich -- "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta -- Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen -- This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox -- Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson -- The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson -- Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah -- "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James -- Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans -- Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson -- The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p.269-292) and index.
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LCCN 2010023990
ISBN9781607810087 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN1607810085 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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