Plural sovereignties and contemporary indigenous literature / / Stuart Christie

• Autore: Christie Stuart <1967->
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/897
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Indian authors - History and criticism; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Racially mixed people - United States - Intellectual life; Racially mixed people - Canada - Intellectual life; Indians of North America - Intellectual life; Racially mixed people in literature; Imperialism in literature; Indians in literature
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Plural sovereignties and contemporary indigenous literature
• ISBN: 1-282-50781-8; 9786612507816; 0-230-62075-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910813257103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II