Feathering Custer - Couverture rigide

Penn, W. S

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0803237316 ISBN 13 : 9780803237315

Editeur : University of Nebraska Press, 2001

Synopsis

Noted Nez Perce fiction writer and critic W. S. Penn, one of the most provocative Native essayists writing today, turns his wry and penetrating gaze upon the state of Native life and literature at the dawn of the new millennium. Marshalling personal experience, remarkable critical acumen, and plain old good sense, Penn considers how modern scholarship has affected the ways in which Native Americans and others see themselves and their world. The result is a uniquely frank, witty, and unsettling critique of contemporary literary and cultural theory and its ability to come to terms with the real lives and literatures of Native Americans. Key to this critique is the troubling issue of what properly constitutes a traditional 'Indian' identity and an 'Indian' literature within Native communities and in the academy.In confronting this issue, Penn exposes some of the sillier uses of the serious language of diversity as well as the impact of identity politics on Native professors in a world where the age-old language of cultural dominance still underpins the showcasing and teaching of minority literatures. And yet, Penn argues, the storytelling traditions so central to Native communities remain very much alive today, hidden in the corners of the literary canon. His book is a bracing challenge to make these traditions a foundation for a distinctive literary and cultural theory for Native lives and literatures.Professor of literature of the Americas and creative writing at Michigan State University, W. S. Penn won the 1994 North American Indian Prose Award for "All My Sins Are Relatives" (Nebraska 1995). His books include "The Absence of Angels", "Killing Time With Strangers", and "This Is the World". He is editor of two collection, "As We Are Now: Mixblood Essays on Race and Identity" and "The Telling of the World: Native American Stories and Art".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Nebraska Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0803237316
• ISBN 13: 9780803237315
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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