Native American Literature: Towards a Spatialized Reading (Routledge Transnational Perspectives on American Literature)

Native American Literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968, and the current canon of novels written in the late twentieth century in American English by Native American or mixed-blood authors is diverse, exciting and flourishing. Despite this, very few such novels are accepted as part of the broader American literary canon. This book offers a valuable and original approach to contemporary Native American literature. Dennis’s contemplation of space and spatialized aesthetics is compelling and persuasive. Considering Native American literature within a modernist framework, and comparing it with writers such as Woolf, Stein, T.S Eliot and Proust results in a valuable and enriching context for the selected texts. Vital reading for scholars of Native American Literature, this book will also provide good grounding in the subject for those with an interest in American and twentieth century literature more generally. Native American Literature Considers A Selection Of Post-war Novels By Native American Writers, Including Well Known, Canonical Works Such As Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, As Well As Lesser Known But Equally Enjoyable Texts, Such As Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture And Linda Hogan's Solar Storms. Believing In The Possibility Of Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries, Native American Literature Offers A Series Of Readings That Focus On The Act Of Understanding Imaginatively Texts By Native American And Mixed-blood Authors That Address And Educate A Global Readership.--jacket. Preliminaries: Felicitous Spaces, Infelicitous Places And Eulogized Space -- Tribal Feminism After Modernism: Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned The Shadows, 1983 -- Ephanie's Case -- Narrative As Ritual: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977 -- The World Of Story In The Writings Of Leslie Marmon Silko And Linda Hogan -- Telling Testimony: Linda Hogan, Power, 1998 -- Narratives Of Healing: Linda Hogan, Solar Storms, 1995 And Power, 1998 -- Lighting Out For The Territory: Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture, 1985 -- Autodiegetic Narration: Betty Louise Bell, Faces In The Moon, 1994 -- Homing In: Revisiting The Paradigm -- Indian 'homing' As Healing Ceremony -- Homing In: Transforming The Paradigm -- Narrative Authority In The Ozhibi'ganan Novels. Helen May Dennis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [207]-229) And Index. "Native American Literature considers a selection of post-war novels by Native American writers, including well known, canonical works such as Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, as well as lesser known but equally enjoyable texts, such as Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing of Cecelia Capture and Linda Hogan's Solar Storms. Believing in the possibility of communicating across cultural boundaries, Native American Literature offers a series of readings that focus on the act of understanding imaginatively texts by Native American and mixed-blood authors that address and educate a global readership."--Résumé de l'éditeur