Recollections of Charley Russell

Linderman, Frank Bird

ISBN 10: 0806121122 / ISBN 13: 9780806121123

Published by University of Oklahoma Press, 1988

May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0806121122I4N00

Synopsis:

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.Janice Acoose infuses a Cree reading of Canadian Cree literature with a creative turn to Cree language; Lisa Brooks looks at eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century Native writers and discovers little-known networks among them; Tol Foster argues for a regional approach to Native studies that can include unlikely subjects such as Will Rogers; LeAnne Howe creates a fictional character, Embarrassed Grief, whose problematic authenticity opens up literary debates; Daniel Heath Justice takes on two prominent critics who see mixed-blood identities differently than he does in relation to kinship; Phillip Carroll Morgan uncovers written Choctaw literary criticism from the 1830s on the subject of oral performance; Kimberly Roppolo advocates an intertribal rhetoric that can form a linguistic foundation for criticism. Cheryl Suzack situates feminist theories within Native culture with an eye to applying them to subjugated groups across Indian Country; Christopher B. Teuton organizes Native literary criticism into three modes based on community awareness; Sean Teuton opens up new sites for literary performance inside prisons with Native inmates; Robert Warrior wants literary analysis to consider the challenges of eroticism; Craig S. Womack introduces the book by historicizing book-length Native-authored criticism published between 1986 and 1997, and he concludes the volume with an essay on theorizing experience.Reasoning Together proposes nothing less than a paradigm shift in American Indian literary criticism, closing the gap between theory and activism by situating Native literature in real-life experiences and tribal histories. It is an accessible collection that will suit a wide range of courses—and will educate and energize anyone engaged in criticism of Native literature.

About the Author: Frank Bird Linderman was, at one time or another, a trapper, an assayer, a businessman, a newspaper editor, a legislator, and an insurance agent, as well as the author of seven books about Indians, a juvenile having to do with a chipmunk, a volume of verse, and articles in magazines.

H. G. Merriam edited and published Frontier and Midland, a regional magazine of the West, from 1927 to 1939, and was an authority on the area and contributor to periodicals devoted to Western history.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Recollections of Charley Russell
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication Date: 1988
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket