Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature - Across Every Border

Informationen zum Autor Matthew D. Herman is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Montana State University. Klappentext This book provides the historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives, and examines the key moments in this turn. Zusammenfassung This book provides the historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives, and examines the key moments in this turn. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. 1. "In the Living Margin": Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Native American Literature" 2. Native American Literature at the Political Turn: The Emergence of Literary Nationalism 3. Politics, Style, and the Silko-Erdrich Controversy, Reappraised 4. Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Literary Value 5. From Navajo Silverwork to Iron Maiden: The Changing Status of Culture in Contemporary Native American Literature and Richard Van Camp’s The Lesser Blessed

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• Authors: Matthew Herman, Matthew (Montana State University Herman, Matthew D. Herman, HERMAN MATTHEW D
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2009
• EAN: 9780415804745
• ISBN: 978-0-415-80474-5
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Indigenous Peoples and Politics; Indigenous Peoples and Politic; Indigenous Peoples and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Interdisciplinary studies, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Native American people, LITERARY CRITICISM / Indigenous