Treuer David - Native American Fiction A User's Manual - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: An entirely new approach to reading understanding and enjoying Native American fiction This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled for the most part on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture. Rather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms. Native American Fiction: A User's Manual is speculative witty engaging and written for the inquisitive reader. These essays on Sherman Alexie Forrest Carter James Fenimore Cooper Louise Erdrich Leslie Marmon Silko and James Welch are rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and ultimately reassert the importance and primacy of the word.
Title: Native American Fiction A User's Manual
Author(s): Treuer David
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781555974527
Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 8/22/2006
Category: Literary Studies: General