Companion to James Welch's The Heartsong of Charging Elk (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Krupat, Arnold

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show; is left behind in Marseille, France; and then struggles to overcome many hardships, including a charge for murder. In this novel Welch conveys some of the lifeways and language of a traditional Sioux. Here for the first time is a literary companion to James Welch's Heartsong that includes an unpublished chapter of the first draft of the novel; selections from interviews with the author; a memoir by the author's widow, Lois Welch; and essays by leading scholars in the field on a wide range of topics. The rich resources presented here make this volume an essential addition to the study of James Welch and twentieth-century Native American literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803278936
• Artikelnr.: 43814908

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Introduction    
Hearing, Reading, and Remembering James Welch (1940–2003)
Kathryn W. Shanley Interview     
Owen Perkins Interview    
Cindy Heidemann Interview    
From James Welch’s The Marseille Grace    
On Researching Marseille Grace/Heartsong, 1994–96    
Lois M. Welch
Welch Relations: Uncovering the History, Recovering the Story    
John Purdy
Reprinted Essays
“A World Away from His People”: James Welch’s The Heartsong of Charging Elk
and the Indian Historical Novel    
James J. Donahue
Ghost Dance Literature: Spectrality in Heartsong    
Ulla Haselstein
Tribal or Transnational? Memory, History, and Identity in Heartsong    
Hans Bak
Original Essays
The Unexpected Indian in Heartsong    
Amanda Cobb-Greetham
“Looking for the Way Back”: Displacement, Diaspora, and Desire    in
Heartsong    
Kathryn W. Shanley
Issues of Identity    
Arnold Krupat
The Fatal Blow Job    
Craig Womack
History, Language, and Culture in Heartsong    
Arnold Krupat
Native Presence and Survivance in Heartsong    
James Ruppert
Contributors