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Title Native American studies across time and space : essays on the indigenous Americas / edited by Oliver Scheiding.

Publication Info. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (244 pages) : color illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series American studies ; volume 191
American studies (Munich, Germany) ; v. 191.
Note Papers from a conference held 2007, Mainz.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Acknowledgements; Oliver Scheiding -- Indtroduction: Native American Studies across Time and Spcae; Part I -- Theory and Method; Arnold Krupat -- Culturalismus and Its Discontents; Robert Warrior -- Contemporary Indigenous Approaches to Criticism Theory, and Method; Alfred Young Man -- A Critique of Anthropology from the Native Perspective; Part II -- Experience and Practice; Regina Harrison -- Economies of Exchange in the Colonial Ades; Catherine Julien -- What to Read on the Subject of Inca Religion; Luis Fernando Restrepo -- Memory and Justice
D. Dörr/Mark D. Cole -- Native American Nations between Termination and Self-DeterminationPart III -- Literature and Peformance; Gordon M. Sayre -- John Tanner, Métis: On the Impossibilites of Cultural Translation; Clemens Spahr -- Sherman Alexie and the Limits of Storytelling; Jeanne Perreault -- Stealing Souls: The Dynamics of Evil in Contemporary Indigenous Literature; Birgit Däwes -- ""We are the Canon""; Vera Städing -- Re-figuring Stereotypes and Intertribal Performance in Hanay Geiogamah's Foghorn; Contributors; Index
Summary HauptbeschreibungThis collection of essays advocates a multidisciplinary dialogue that brings together an international group of scholars who work in the field of Latin American, Anglo-American, and Francophone Native Studies. To foster a more comprehensive and diverse curriculum of Native American Studies, this volume combines contributions from literary programs (English, Spanish, Comparative Literature) as well as from related fields in the humanities such as anthropology, history, and law. The goal of this collection of essays is to contribute to the development of Native Americ.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Indians of North America -- Study and teaching -- Congresses.
Indians of North America -- Study and teaching.
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
American literature -- Indian authors.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Scheiding, Oliver.
Other Form: Print version: Native American studies across time and space : essays on the indigenous Americas. Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2010] xxii, 221 pages ; 21 cm. American studies ; volume 191 9783825357696 (DLC) 10828388 (OCoLC)646519814
ISBN 3825373223 (e-book)
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3825357694
9783825357696