Narrative Chance - Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse.

About the author

Gerald Vizenor is Professor of American Studies and Native American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Griever: An American Monkey King in China (winner of the American Book Award); Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World; and Chancers: A Novel. He resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Summary

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, and other Native American authors, the essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views and trickster discourse.

Product details

• Authors: James Seaver, James E. Seaver, Gerald Vizenor
• Assisted by: Gerald Robert Vizenor (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Oklahoma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2022
• EAN: 9780806125619
• ISBN: 978-0-8061-2561-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Series: American Indian Literature and; American Indian Literature & Critical Studies; American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories