Matthew Herman

Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature

Across Every Border

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides the historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives, and examines the key moments in this turn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780415804745
• ISBN-10: 0415804744
• Artikelnr.: 26926298

Autorenporträt

Matthew D. Herman is Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Montana State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. "In the Living Margin": Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism,
and Native American Literature" 2. Native American Literature at the
Political Turn: The Emergence of Literary Nationalism 3. Politics, Style,
and the Silko-Erdrich Controversy, Reappraised 4. Sherman Alexie and the
Politics of Literary Value 5. From Navajo Silverwork to Iron Maiden: The
Changing Status of Culture in Contemporary Native American Literature and
Richard Van Camp's The Lesser Blessed