Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Native American Literature: Across Every Border

by Herman; Matthew

• ISBN13: 9780415804745
• ISBN10: 0415804744
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-12-08
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

In this book, Matthew Herman provides the historical framework for the shift in Native American literary studies away from cultural analyses toward more politically inflected and motivated perspectives and examines the key moments in this turn.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
"In the Living Margin": Cosmopolitanism, Internationalism, and Native American Literature	p. 9
Native American Literature at the Political Turn: The Emergence of Literary Nationalism	p. 26
Politics, Style, and the Silko-Erdrich Controversy, Reappraised	p. 42
Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Literary Value	p. 67
From Navajo Silverwork to Iron Maiden: The Changing Status of Culture in Contemporary Native American Literature and Richard Van Camp's The Lesser Blessed	p. 102
Notes	p. 123
Works Cited	p. 129
Index	p. 137
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