| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index. |
| Summary |
Weaver focuses on studying Native American literature as a reflectionand shaper of community values, especially for modern urban Native Americans. For cultures so gravitized by oral tradition, the written word has become the messenger of culture and religion. |
| Contents |
Native American literatures and communitism -- Occom's Razor and Ridge's Masquerade (18th-19th Century) -- Assimilation, apocalypticism, and reform (1900-1967) -- Indian literary renaissance and the continuing search for community (1968- ) -- Conclusion: Anger times imagination. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Indian literature -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Indian literature. |
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United States. |
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American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- Indian authors. |
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Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.
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Indians of North America -- Intellectual life. |
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Indians of North America -- Religion.
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Indians of North America -- Religion. |
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
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Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Weaver, Jace, 1957- That the people might live. New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 0195118529 (DLC) 97003273 (OCoLC)36649198 |
| ISBN |
0585182744 (electronic book) |
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9780585182742 (electronic book) |
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1602566534 |
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9781602566538 |
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019512037X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780195118520 (cloth) |
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0195118529 (cloth) |
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9780195120370 (paperback) |
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