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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777994303321

Autore

Teuton Sean Kicummah <1966->

Titolo

Red Land, Red Power [[electronic resource] ] : Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-8223-8904-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Collana

New Americanists

Classificazione

HR 1981

Altri autori (Persone)

PeaseDonald E

Disciplina

813/.5409897

Soggetti

American fiction - Indian authors - History and criticism

Indians of North America - Ethnic identity

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center; Part I. Red Land; 1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn; 2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood; Part II. Red Power; 3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in LeslieMarmon Silko's Ceremony; 4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism; Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge inthe Contemporary Native Novel; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans.