Sherman Alexie a collection of critical essays /

Sherman Alexie a collection of critical essays / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush. - Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xxxix, 302 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

-- "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund -- Lisa Tatonetti -- Philip Heldrich -- Elizabeth Archuleta -- P. Jane Hafen -- James H. Cox -- Angelica Lawson -- Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- Nancy J. Peterson -- Patrice Hollrah -- Meredith James -- Stephen F. Evans -- Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- Jan Johnson -- Jeff Berglund.



9781607819745


Alexie, Sherman, 1966- --Criticism and interpretation.


Indians in literature.


Electronic Books.

PS3551 / .S547 2010