Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction

by Ruppert, James

• ISBN13: 9780806127491
• ISBN10: 080612749X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Mediation is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his important new theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on novels of six major contemporary American writers-N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich-Ruppert analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage, guiding Native and non-Native readers alike to a different and expanded understanding of each other's worlds. While Native American writers may criticize white society, revealing its past and present injustices, their emphasis, Ruppert argues, is on healing, survival, and continuance.

Author Biography

James Ruppert is Associate Professor of English and Alaskan Native Studies at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Mediation	p. 3
Multiple Narratives and Story Realities	p. 22
Intricate Patterns of the Universe: House Made of Dawn	p. 36
That Other Distance: Winter in the Blood	p. 56
No Boundaries, Only Transitions: Ceremony	p. 74
Mythic Verism: Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles	p. 92
What Did You See?: Wind from an Enemy Sky	p. 109
Celebrating Culture: Love Medicine	p. 131
Notes	p. 151
Works Cited	p. 161
Index	p. 171
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