| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 302 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund -- Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti -- "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich -- "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta -- Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen -- This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox -- Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson -- Distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- Poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson -- Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah -- "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James -- Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans -- Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson -- Business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Alexie, Sherman, 1966- -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966- |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Alexie, Sherman, 1966- -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Alexie, Sherman -- études diverses. |
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Indians in literature.
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Indians in literature. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Berglund, Jeff.
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Roush, Jan.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sherman Alexie. Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2010 9781607810087 (DLC) 2010023990 (OCoLC)495779777 |
| ISBN |
9781607819745 (electronic book) |
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1607819740 (electronic book) |
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9781607810087 |
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1607810085 |
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