Sherman Alexie [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of critical essays / / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush

• Pubblicazione: Salt Lake City, : University of Utah Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: xxxix, 302 p. : ill
• Disciplina: 818/.5409
• Soggetto topico: Indians in literature
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: BerglundJeff RoushJan
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund -- Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti -- "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich -- "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta -- Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen -- This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox -- Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson -- The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson -- Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah -- "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James -- Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans -- Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson -- The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sherman Alexie
• ISBN: 1-60781-974-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465747303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II