Plural Sovereignties and Contemporary Indigenous Literature
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.
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Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
Language: | English |
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230620759 |
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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. "In a series of subtle but incisive engagements with major works of contemporary Native American and Canadian fiction, Christie develops a vision of the 'shared sovereign horizon' they offer their readership that is all the more compelling for its combination of informed astuteness, self-exacting critical humility, and full acknowledgment of these novelists' awareness of the challenges posed for cultural survival in post-Columbia North America." - Lawrence Buell, Harvard University "This is a liberating work of scholarship of hemispheric proportions; well researched and well written, it offe |
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Ebook. Originally published in: 2009. |
Carrier Form: | 296 p. |
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9780230613423 9780230620759 : 0230620752 : |
CLC: | I11 |
Contents: | PART I: Representations * Blood Legacies: Pathology and Power in Works by 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 * PART II: Futures * Recovering Sovereignty in Louis Owens's Dark River * Indigenous Wormholes: Reading Plural Sovereignties in Works by Thomas King. |