Red Land, Red Power - Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

Informationen zum Autor Sean Kicummah Teuton Klappentext A new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans. Zusammenfassung Studies the stirring literature of "Red Power!" an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. This title shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments xi Preface xiii Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center 1 Part I. Red Land 1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn 43 2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood 79 Part II. Red Power 3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's ` 119 4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism 157 Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel 197 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281

Product details

• Authors: Sean Kicummahteuton, Teuton, Sean Kicummah Teuton
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.06.2008
• EAN: 9780822342236
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4223-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: New Americanists; New Americanists
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Autoren