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Postindian aesthetics : affirming Indigenous literary sovereignty
Title
Postindian aesthetics : affirming Indigenous literary sovereignty / edited by Debra K. S. Barker and Connie A. Jacobs ; foreword by Robert Warrior.
ISBN
9780816546275
0816546274
9780816546268
0816546266
Publication
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2022]
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
xvii, 230 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Debra K.S. Barker
Part I: Nurturing culture through ancestor words and stories. Spiraling out from shiprock: the traveling songs of Luci Tapahonso / Susan Scarberry-García
Not placed in their literature: Jeannette C. Armstrong's writings of community process / Jane Haladay
Acts of attention: communal aesthetics in Kimberly Blaeser's poetry / Molly McGlennen
"Not all Indians dance": counterhistorical aesthetics in the work of Joseph M. Marshall III / Debra K.S. Barker
Part II: New directions in tribal literature. A cartography of healing: mapping the poetry and prose of Janice Gould / Dean Rader
Tribalography in motion: LeAnne Howe / Kenneth M. Roemer and Kirstin L. Squint
Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Haida Manga, and the political possibilities of comics art / Jeremy M. Carnes
Complexity and media in Heid E. Erdrich's verse / Denise Low
Deborah A. Miranda: the erotics of lesbian Native American literature / Gabriel S. Estrada
Part III: Art in the quotidian. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: constructing Southern working-class indigeneity / Ellen L. Arnold
In and out of the crazywoods: Cheryl Savageau's Abenaki grounding of a bipolar diagnosis / Siobhan Senier
"Busy living it all": the ironic aesthetic of nila northSun / Stephanie Fitzgerald
"Telling the truths of our presence": Meshwaki sovereignty in the autobiographical narratives of Ray Young Bear / Laura J. Beard
Part IV: Affirming indigenous literary sovereignty. Draw the circle wider: returning to the work of Robert J. Conley / Daniel Heath Justice
Demon theory for beginners, or the intertextual badlands of Stephen Graham Jones / Eric Gary Anderson
David Treuer: the power in the contrarian voice / Virginia Kennedy
"Directional memory": Esther G. Belin's poetic geographies / Jeff Berglund
Writing from the guest house: the poetics of Sherwin Bitsui / Esther G. Belin
"Between ink and letter when words are silent": the Navajo poetics of Orlando White / Sherwin Bitsui
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