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Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: Engaging community
• Textual parameters for readers
• Reading to learn (not to profess)
• Individual methods and shared goals
• Critical methodology
• power of fiction
• 1. Following the tracks: history and context of Native writing
• Invasion and loss
• Adapting to change, writing for change
• Trail of broken treaties
• New policies, old problems
• Recovering from loss, and continuing the oral tradition
• Fiction, poetry, and self-definition
• snapshot of contemporary Native America
• 2. Nothing but words: from confrontation to connection in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn
• Observation versus experience
• Angela and Abel: connection and disconnection
• Abel's progress and Angela's revelation
• Words, language, and meaning
• Violence, whiteness, and evil

• Confrontation and affirmation
• timeless challenge and the reader
• Eternity, nothing, and shared truths
• 3. Revitalizing the original clan: participant readers in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
• Clan stories and the reader
• performative power of language
• Connection and context
• Racial politics
• Fighting fragmentation and hatred
• Re-uniting the people
• Individual success and human promise
• 4. Individualism vs. separation: imagining the self to foster unity via Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart
• Text and reader
• dangers of language
• power of imagination
• Collaboration and individual interpretation
• Connection, non-conformity, and transcendence
• Dependence and self-destruction
• Tribalism versus individualism
• 5. Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction
• Writing history as resistance
• Translating the unfamiliar
• Teaching readers with cultural connections
• Ambiguity and interpretation
• normal and the negative
• Humor as connection
• Community versus individual
• 6. approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
• Theorizing the frontier of humor
• Story-telling and its equivocal potential
• Humor as protection
• Humor as self-destructive avoidance
• Tradition, change, and context
• Humor as intra-community connection
• Humor as cross-cultural outreach
• Anger and joy
• 7. Stitching the gap: believing vs. knowing in Linda Hogan's Power
• Narrative and interpretive processes
• Tradition and renewal
• Storm as metaphor
• Knowledge versus belief
• Witness
• Trial and error
• Future connection and community
• Effort and achievement
• healing power of words.

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Author/Creator:

Coulombe, Joseph L., 1966-

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Reading Native American literature [by Coulombe, J.L.]

Subjects:

American literature — Indian authors — History and criticism

Indians of North America — Intellectual life

Indians in literature

American literature — Indian authors

American literature

Indians of North America

Genres:

Electronic book

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PS153.I52 C59 2011eb

ISBNs:

0203832906 (electronic bk.)
9780203832905 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

710992759

Other Control Numbers:

EBC668420 (source: MiAaPQ)