An edition of Sherman Alexie (2010)

Sherman Alexie

a collection of critical essays

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An edition of Sherman Alexie (2010)

Sherman Alexie

a collection of critical essays

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302

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Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays
2011, University of Utah Press
in English
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Sherman Alexie: a collection of critical essays
2010, University of Utah Press
in English

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p.269-292) and index.

Published in
Salt Lake City

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
818/.5409
Library of Congress
PS3551.L35774 Z87 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxxix, 302 p. :
Number of pages
302

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24880533M
Internet Archive
shermanalexiecol0000unse
ISBN 10
1607810085
ISBN 13
9781607810087
LCCN
2010023990
OCLC/WorldCat
495779777

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