Invention of Native American Literature Contributor(s): Parker, Robert Dale (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801488044 ISBN-13: 9780801488047 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $35.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2002 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - History | Native American |
Dewey: 810.989 |
LCCN: 2002010492 |
Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.1" W x 9.18" (0.82 lbs) 264 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy. |
Contributor Bio(s): Parker, Robert Dale: - Robert Dale Parker is Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois. He is the author of Faulkner and the Novelistic Imagination; The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop; and'Absalom, Absalom!': The Questioning of Fictions. |