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Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Harold Bloom
• The stories we tell: Louise Erdrich's identity narratives / E. Shelley Reid
• "Thinking like an Indian": exploring American Indian views of American history / Frederick E. Hoxie
• Falls of desire/leaps of faith: religious syncretism in Louise Erdrich's and Joy Harjo's "mixed-blood" poetry / Sheila Hassell Hughes
• Bear, outlaw, and storyteller: American frontier mythology and the ethnic subjectivity of N. Scott Momaday / Jason W. Stevens
• The approximate size of his favorite humor: Sherman Alexie's comic connections and disconnections in The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven / Joseph L. Coulombe
• Revolutionary enunciatory spaces: ghost dancing, transatlantic travel, and modernist arson in Gardens in the dunes / A.M. Regier
• Zitkala-Ša and the problem of regionalism: nations, narratives, and critical traditions / Gary Totten
• Poem and tale as double helix in Joy Harjo's A map to the next world / Angelique V. Nixon
• Oral narrative and Ojibwa story cycles in Louise Erdrich's The birchbark house and The game of silence / Elizabeth Gargano
• Extending root and branch: community regeneration in the petitions of Samson Occom / Caroline Wigginton
• Writing for connection: cross-cultural understanding in James Welch's historical fiction / Joseph L. Coulombe.

Contributors:

Bloom, Harold

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Native American writers (New ed.; New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2010 — ISBN 9781604135916; LCCN 2010006006; OCLC Number 401140448)

Related Series:

Bloom's modern critical views

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:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 285 pages).

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PS153.I52 N388 2010eb

ISBNs:

9781438134390 (electronic bk.)
1438134398 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

649924868

Other Control Numbers:

EBC547846 (source: MiAaPQ)