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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778121603321

Titolo

Transatlantic voices [[electronic resource] ] : interpretations of Native North American literatures / / edited by Elvira Pulitano

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-09229-0

9786611092290

0-8032-5645-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

PulitanoElvira <1970->

Disciplina

810.9/897

Soggetti

American fiction - Indian authors - History and criticism

Criticism - Europe

Characters and characteristics in literature

Indians of North America - Intellectual life

Indians in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction, Elvira Pulitano; Part One: Theoretical Crossings; 1. "They Have Stories, Don't They?": Some Doubts Regarding an Overused Theorem, Hartwig Isernhagen; 2. Plotting History: The Function of History in Native North American Literature, Bernadette Rigal-Cellard; 3. Transculturality and Transdifference: The Case of Native America, Helmbrecht Breinig; Part Two: From Early Fiction to Recent Directions; 4. American Indian Novels of the 1930's: John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and D'Arcy McNickle's Surrounded: Gaetano Prampolini

5. Transatlantic Crossings: New Directions in the Contemporary Native American Novel: Brigitte Georgi-Findlay Part Three: Trauma, Memory, and Narratives of Healing; 6. Of Time and Trauma: The Possibilities for Narrative in Paula Gunn Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows, Deborah L. Madsen; 7. "Keep Wide Awake in the Eyes": Seeing Eyes in Wendy Rose's Poetry, Kathryn Napier Gray; 8. Anamnesiac Mappings: National Histories and Transnational

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of critical essays by European scholars on contemporary



Native North American literatures. Devoted to the primary genres of Native literature - fiction, nonfiction, drama, poetry - these essays chart the course of theories of Native literature, and delineate the crosscurrents in the history of Native literature studies.