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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813257103321

Autore

Christie Stuart <1967->

Titolo

Plural sovereignties and contemporary indigenous literature / / Stuart Christie

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

ISBN

1-282-50781-8

9786612507816

0-230-62075-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/897

Soggetti

American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Multiracial people - United States - Intellectual life

Multiracial people - Canada - Intellectual life

Indians of North America - Intellectual life

Multiracial people in literature

Imperialism in literature

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 (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.