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This collectively authored volume celebrates a group of Native critics performing community in a lively, rigorous, sometimes contentious dialogue that challenges the aesthetics of individual literary representation. Bringing twelve distinguished authors into conversation, Reasoning Together is an interactive work. Each essay comments on the others so that contributions derive added strength from their companion pieces.
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Wallace Stegner's portrayal of the American West and in particular his portrayal of Native Americans in his works are critically examined. Other essays include discussion of Native American writers such as Michael Dorris, Ray Young Bear and N. Scott Momaday; the importance of a tribal voice in academia; the risks to American Indian women in current law practices; the future of Indian nationalism; and the defense of the land.
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"In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, The Voice in the Margin invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international--a "cosmopolitan"--literary canon. The book comes at a time when the most influential national media have focused attention on the subject of the literary canon. They have made it an issue...
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"Sidner Larson's Captured in the Middle embodies the very nature of Indian storytelling, which is circular, drawing upon the personal experiences of the narrator at every turn. Larson teaches about contemporary American Indian literature by describing his own experiences as a child on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana and as a professor at the University of Oregon." "Larson describes Indians today as post-apocalyptic peoples who have already...
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