Writing Indian, Native Conversations
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| Title: | Writing Indian, Native Conversations |
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| Description: | By revisiting some of the classics of the genre and offering critical readings of their distinctive qualities and shades of meaning, Purdy celebrates their dynamic literary qualities. Interwoven with this personal reflection on the last thirty years of work in the genre are interviews with prominent Native American scholars and writers (including Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and Louis Owens), who offer their own insights about Native literatures and the future of the genre. In this book their voices provide the original, central conversation that leads to read. |
| Authors: | Purdy, John L |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Indians in literature, American fiction--Indian authors--History and criticism, Indians of North America--Intellectual life, Indigenous peoples in literature |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | By revisiting some of the classics of the genre and offering critical readings of their distinctive qualities and shades of meaning, Purdy celebrates their dynamic literary qualities. Interwoven with this personal reflection on the last thirty years of work in the genre are interviews with prominent Native American scholars and writers (including Paula Gunn Allen, Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Sherman Alexie, and Louis Owens), who offer their own insights about Native literatures and the future of the genre. In this book their voices provide the original, central conversation that leads to read. |
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| ISBN: | 9780803222878 9780803226500 |
