Narrative Chance

by Vizenor, Gerald Robert

• ISBN13: 9780806125619
• ISBN10: 0806125616
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Focusing on published works by novelists N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, D'Arcy McNickle, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, and other Native American authors, the critical essays in this collection examine translation and representation in tribal literatures, comic and tragic world views, and trickster discourse.

Table of Contents

Preface
A Postmodern Introduction	p. 3
Technology and Tribal Narrative	p. 17
The Way to Rainy Mountain: Momaday's Work in Motion	p. 39
The Dialogic of Silko's Storyteller	p. 55
Tayo, Death, and Desire: A Lacanian Reading of Ceremony	p. 69
Textual Perspectives and the Reader in The Surrounded	p. 91
Opening the Text: Love Medicine and the Return of the Native American Woman	p. 101
The Trickster Novel	p. 121
"Ecstatic Strategies": Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart	p. 141
Metalanguages	p. 155
Trickster Discourse: Comic Holotropes and Language Games	p. 187
Notes on Contributors	p. 213
Index	p. 217
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