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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781069303321

Autore

Christie S

Titolo

Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature [[electronic resource] /] / by S. Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

1-282-50781-8

9786612507816

0-230-62075-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/897

810.9897

Soggetti

Literature   

America—Literatures

Fiction

Literature, Modern—20th century

Postcolonial/World Literature

North American Literature

Twentieth-Century 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 (p. [231]-265) and index.

Nota di contenuto

I: Representations -- Blood legacies: pathology and power in works / Sherman Alexie and A. A. Carr -- National captivity narratives in Welch, Silko, and Armstrong -- Trickster's gamble: capitalizing indigenous discourse in Vizenor's The heirs of Columbus and Erdrich's The bingo palace -- II: Futures -- Recovering sovereignty in Louis Owen's Dark river -- Indigenous wormholes: reading plural sovereignties in works / Thomas King.

Sommario/riassunto

Offering close readings of novels by Sherman Alexie to Leslie Marmon Silko, this book documents the reinvention of Anglo-European nationality in the interests of sustaining the indigenous traditions that long-preceded colonization.