{"product_id":"native-american-perspectives-on-literature-and-history-volume-19-9780806127859","title":"Native American Perspectives on Literature and History: Volume 19","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alan R. Velie\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Native American Studies\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNative American Perspectives on Literature and History is a volume of essays by Indian and white scholars on issues such as ethnic identity, Indians in American mythology, how Indians write about Indians, and Indian crime and punishment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJames Ruppert \u003c\/strong\u003eexplores the bicultural nature of Indian writers and discusses strategies they employ in addressing several audiences at once: their tribe, other Indians, and other Americans.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHelen Jaskoski \u003c\/strong\u003eanalyzes the genre of autoethnography, or Indian historical writing, in an Ottawa writer's account of a smallpox epidemic. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKimberly Blaeser, \u003c\/strong\u003ea Chippewa, writes about how Indian writers reappropriate their history and stories of their land and people. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Allen Warrior, \u003c\/strong\u003ean Osage, examines the ideas of the leading Indian philosopher in America, Vine Deloria, Jr., who calls for a return to traditional tribal religions. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Berner \u003c\/strong\u003eexposes the incomplete myths and false legends pervading Indian views of American history. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAlan Velie \u003c\/strong\u003ediscusses the issue of historical objectivity in two Indian historical novels, James Welch's \u003cem\u003eFools Crow \u003c\/em\u003eand Gerald Vizenor's \u003cem\u003eThe Heirs \u003c\/em\u003eof \u003cem\u003eColumbus. \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKurt M. Peters \u003c\/strong\u003erelates how Laguna Indians retained their culture and identity while living in the boxcars of the Santa Fe Railroad Indian Village at Richmond, California. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eJuana Maria Rodriguez \u003c\/strong\u003eexamines power relations in Gerald Vizenor's narrative of a Dakota Indian accused of murder in 1967, \"Thomas White Hawk.\" Finally, \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eGerald Vizenor, \u003c\/strong\u003ea Chippewa, discusses Indian conceptions of identity in contemporary America, including simulations he calls \"postindian identity.\" \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e Editor Alan Velie, with Gerald Vizenor, provides an introduction to this volume of essays by the country's leading Indian and white scholars of Indian literature and history. It will be essential reading for those seeking to understand Native American approaches to fiction and history.","brand":"University of Oklahoma Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614835163287,"sku":"9780806127859","price":2294.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780806127859.webp?v=1775096856","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/native-american-perspectives-on-literature-and-history-volume-19-9780806127859","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}