Author/Contributor(s): | Velie, Alan R |
Publisher: | University of Oklahoma Press |
Date: | 10/15/1995 |
Binding: | Paperback |
Condition: | NEW |
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment.
- James Ruppert explores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans.
- Helen Jaskoski analyzes the genre of autoethnography, or Indian historical writing, in an Ottawa writer's account of a smallpox epidemic.
- Kimberly Blaeser, a Chippewa, writes about how Indian writers reappropriate their history and stories of their land and people.
- Robert Allen Warrior, an Osage, examines the ideas of the leading Indian philosopher in America, Vine Deloria, Jr., who calls for a return to traditional tribal religions.
- Robert Berner exposes the incomplete myths and false legends pervading Indian views of American history.
- Alan Velie discusses the issue of historical objectivity in two Indian historical novels, James Welch's Fools Crow and Gerald Vizenor's The Heirs of Columbus.
- Kurt M. Peters relates how Laguna Indians retained their culture and identity while living in the boxcars of the Santa Fe Railroad Indian Village at Richmond, California.
- Juana Maria Rodriguez examines power relations in Gerald Vizenor's narrative of a Dakota Indian accused of murder in 1967, Thomas White Hawk. Finally,
- Gerald Vizenor, a Chippewa, discusses Indian conceptions of identity in contemporary America, including simulations he calls postindian identity.