Reasoning Together : The Native Critics Collective
Reasoning Together : The Native Critics Collective
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Author(s): Acoose, Janice
Brooks, Lisa
Justice, Daniel Heath
ISBN No.: 9780806138879
Pages: 448
Year: 200804
Format: Perfect (Trade Paper)
Price: $ 37.19
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

A paradigm shift in American Indian literary criticism This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Janice Acooseinfuses a Cree reading of Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language; Lisa Brookslooks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol Fosterargues for a regional approach to Native studies that can include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howecreates a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justicetakes on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morganuncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppoloadvocates an intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for criticism. Cheryl Suzacksituates feminist theories within Native culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across Indian Country; Christopher B. Teutonorganizes Native literary criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean Teutonopens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons with Native inmates; Robert Warriorwants literary analysis to consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womackintroduces the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with an essay on theorizing experience. Reasoning Togetherproposes nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses--and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of Native literature.


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