| Stories Through Theories/ Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique Contributor(s): Henry Jr, Gordon D. (Editor), Soler, Nieves Pascual (Editor), Martínez-Falquina, Silvia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0870138413 ISBN-13: 9780870138416 Publisher: Michigan State University Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2009 Annotation: Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories explores the uneasy relations -- often contentious, sometimes complicit -- between American Indian Literature and literary theory. Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on "western depth models." Others work from a very different direction, finding critique in storytelling and processes of narrative production, thereby exposing dimensions of literary theory that grow from the indigenous ground of Native stories themselves. This collection of essays -- sometimes playfully, but always insistently -- changes our readings of Native works and challenges our roles as intellectual guides until we step deeper into the ambiguous territories where writer, listener, reader, and critic intersect. Taken together, these essays provide compelling evidence for looking at primary Native cultures, authors, and histories as enrichments of Native literature. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 2009014698 |
| Series: American Indian Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 7" W x 9" (1.16 lbs) 327 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories explores the uneasy relations--often contentious, sometimes complicit--between American Indian Literature and literary theory. Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on western depth models. Others work from a very different direction, finding critique in storytelling and processes of narrative production, thereby exposing dimensions of literary theory that grow from the indigenous ground of Native stories themselves. |
Contributor Bio(s): Henry Jr, Gordon D.: - GORDON HENRY JR., an Anishinaabe poet and novelist, is an enrolled member of the White Earth Chippewa Tribe of Minnesota. His poetry has been published in several anthologies, and his novel The Light People won the American Book Award in 1995. Nieves Pascual Soler is Senior Lecturer of North American Literature at the University of Jaén, Spain. Martinez-Falquina, Silvia: -Silvia Martinez-Falquina is Associate Professor of English at the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. |