Shapes of Native nonfiction : collected essays by contemporary writers /
Shapes of Native nonfiction : collected essays by contemporary writers /
edited by Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton.
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (266 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Contemporary creative writing and ancient oral tradition / Letter to a just-starting-out Indian writer - and maybe to myself / Funny, you don't look like (my preconceived ideas of) an essay / Nizhoní dóó 'a'ani' dóó até'él'í dóó ayoo'o'oni (beauty and memory and abuse and love) / Fairy tales, trauma, writing into dissociation / Tuolumne / I know I'll go / Little mountain woman / Fear to forget and fear to forgive: or an attempt at writing a travel essay / Fertility rites / AND SO I ANAL DOUCHE WHILE KESHA'S "PRAYING" PLAYS FROM MY IPHONE ON REPEAT / The Great Elk / Real romantic / The trickster surfs the floods / The way of wounds / To the man who gave me cancer / Self-portrait with parts missing and/or smeared / Critical poly 100s / Pain scale treaties / Caribou people / Part one: redeeming the English language (acquisition) series / Apocalypse logic / Women in the Fracklands: on water, land, bodies, and Standing Rock / Goodbye Once upon a time / I am chopping ivory or bone / Blood running / A mind spread out on the ground / Ernestine Hayes -- Stephen Graham Jones -- Chip Livingston -- Bojan Louis -- Sasha LaPointe -- Deborah A. Miranda -- Terese Marie Mailhot -- Terese Marie Mailhot -- Bojan Louis -- Tiffany Midge -- Billy-Ray Belcourt -- Ruby Hansen Murray -- Eden Robinson -- Natanya Ann Pulley -- Natanya Ann Pulley -- Adrienne Keene -- Michael Wasson -- Kim Tallbear -- Laura Da' -- Siku Allooloo -- Tiffany Midge -- Elissa Washuta -- Toni Jensen -- Byron F. Aspaas -- Joan Naviyuk Kane -- Sasha LaPointe -- Alicia Elliott.
"For many the phrase "Native nonfiction" inspires thoughts of the past, of timeless oral history transcriptions and dry 19th century autobiographies. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, Washuta and Warburton explode this perspective by showcasing 22 contemporary Native writers and their provocative approaches to form. While exploring familiar legacies of personal and collective trauma and violence, these writers push, pull and break the conventional essay structure to overhaul the dominant cultural narrative that romanticize Native lives, yet deny Native emotional response. Organized into four sections inspired by different aspects of and strategies for basket weaving (Technique, Coiling, Plaiting, Twining) the essays presented here demonstrate how Native writers manipulate the shape of creative nonfiction to offer incisive observations, critiques and commentary on our political, social and cultural world. The result is an engaging anthology that introduces a variety of audiences to the true range of Native nonfiction work"--
9780295745770
2018059193
American literature--Indian authors.
Indians of North America--Literary collections.
Creative nonfiction, American.
American literature--21st century.
American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PS508 / .S537 2019
Includes bibliographical references.
Contemporary creative writing and ancient oral tradition / Letter to a just-starting-out Indian writer - and maybe to myself / Funny, you don't look like (my preconceived ideas of) an essay / Nizhoní dóó 'a'ani' dóó até'él'í dóó ayoo'o'oni (beauty and memory and abuse and love) / Fairy tales, trauma, writing into dissociation / Tuolumne / I know I'll go / Little mountain woman / Fear to forget and fear to forgive: or an attempt at writing a travel essay / Fertility rites / AND SO I ANAL DOUCHE WHILE KESHA'S "PRAYING" PLAYS FROM MY IPHONE ON REPEAT / The Great Elk / Real romantic / The trickster surfs the floods / The way of wounds / To the man who gave me cancer / Self-portrait with parts missing and/or smeared / Critical poly 100s / Pain scale treaties / Caribou people / Part one: redeeming the English language (acquisition) series / Apocalypse logic / Women in the Fracklands: on water, land, bodies, and Standing Rock / Goodbye Once upon a time / I am chopping ivory or bone / Blood running / A mind spread out on the ground / Ernestine Hayes -- Stephen Graham Jones -- Chip Livingston -- Bojan Louis -- Sasha LaPointe -- Deborah A. Miranda -- Terese Marie Mailhot -- Terese Marie Mailhot -- Bojan Louis -- Tiffany Midge -- Billy-Ray Belcourt -- Ruby Hansen Murray -- Eden Robinson -- Natanya Ann Pulley -- Natanya Ann Pulley -- Adrienne Keene -- Michael Wasson -- Kim Tallbear -- Laura Da' -- Siku Allooloo -- Tiffany Midge -- Elissa Washuta -- Toni Jensen -- Byron F. Aspaas -- Joan Naviyuk Kane -- Sasha LaPointe -- Alicia Elliott.
"For many the phrase "Native nonfiction" inspires thoughts of the past, of timeless oral history transcriptions and dry 19th century autobiographies. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, Washuta and Warburton explode this perspective by showcasing 22 contemporary Native writers and their provocative approaches to form. While exploring familiar legacies of personal and collective trauma and violence, these writers push, pull and break the conventional essay structure to overhaul the dominant cultural narrative that romanticize Native lives, yet deny Native emotional response. Organized into four sections inspired by different aspects of and strategies for basket weaving (Technique, Coiling, Plaiting, Twining) the essays presented here demonstrate how Native writers manipulate the shape of creative nonfiction to offer incisive observations, critiques and commentary on our political, social and cultural world. The result is an engaging anthology that introduces a variety of audiences to the true range of Native nonfiction work"--
9780295745770
2018059193
American literature--Indian authors.
Indians of North America--Literary collections.
Creative nonfiction, American.
American literature--21st century.
American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
Electronic Books.
PS508 / .S537 2019