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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815732303321

Autore

Teuton Sean Kicummah <1966->

Titolo

Red land, red power : grounding knowledge in the American Indian novel / / Sean Kicummah Teuton

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

Disciplina

813/.5409897

Soggetti

American fiction - Indian authors - History and criticism

Indians of North America - Ethnic identity

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. [257]-279) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : imagining an American Indian center -- Embodying lands : somatic place in N. Scott Momaday's House made of dawn -- Placing the ancestors : historical identity in James Welch's Winter in the blood -- Learning to feel : tribal experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- Hearing the callout : American Indian political criticism -- Conclusion : building cultural knowledge in the contemporary Native novel.

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.