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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825689403321

Titolo

Companion to James Welch's The heartsong of Charging Elk / / edited by Arnold Krupat ; designed by Rachel Gould ; contributors Hans Bak [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, Nebraska ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Nebraska Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-8032-7893-4

0-8032-7895-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 p.)

Disciplina

813/.54

Soggetti

Indians in literature

Western stories - History and criticism

Novelists, American - 20th century

West (U.S.) 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.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Hearing, reading, and remembering James Welch (1940-2003). Kathryn W. Shanley interview; Owen Perkins interview; Cindy Heidemann interview -- From James Welch's The Marseille grace -- On researching Marseille grace/Heartsong, 1994-96 / Lois M. Welch; Welch relations: uncovering the history, recovering the story/ John Purdy -- Reprinted essays. "A world away from his people": James Welch's The heartsong of Charging Elk and the Indian historical novel / James J. Donahue; Ghost dance literature: spectrality in Heartsong / Ulla Haselstein; Tribal or transnational? memory, history, and identity in Heartsong / Hans Bak -- Original essays. The unexpected Indian in Heartsong / Amanda Cobb-Greetham; "Looking for the way back": displacement, diaspora, and desire in Heartsong / Kathryn W. Shanley; Issues of identity / Arnold Krupat; The fatal blow job / Craig Womack; History, language, and culture in Heartsong / Arnold Krupat; Native presence and survivance in Heartsong / James Ruppert.

Sommario/riassunto

"Literary companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk



that includes an unpublished chapter of "The Marseille Grace," personal interviews with the author, an essay by the author's widow, and essays by leading scholars in the field" --