Kelsey Maurice Kenny

Celebrations of a Mohawk Writer
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4384-3804-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 182 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Explores the work of Maurice Kenny, a pivotal figure in American Indian literature from the 1950s to the present.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelsey, Penelope Myrtle

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bruchac, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Maurice Kenny: Not Through Height
Joseph Bruchac

1. Reading the Wampum: An Introduction to the Works of Maurice Kenny
Penelope Kelsey

2. You, Too, Will Have This Printed Word (World) of Your Own
Eric Gansworth

3. The Breath and Skin of History
James Thomas Stevens

4. Dancing Back Strong Our Nations: Performance as Continuance in Maurice Kenny’s Poetry
Qwo-Li Driskill

5. Maurice Kenny: How Can Any Self-Respecting Mohawk Live in a Place Like Brooklyn?
Susan Ward

6. Tortured Skins, Bears, and Our Responsibilities to the Natural World
Nicholle Dragone

7. Teaching Maurice Kenny’s Fiction: Dislocated Characters, Narrators, and Readers
Alan Steinberg and Karen Gibson

8. The Spirit of Independence: Maurice Kenny’s Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant: Poems of War
Craig Womack

9. Painting “Word-Pictures” in Place: Maurice Kenny’s Emphatic Imagination of Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant
Lisa Brooks

10. Two-Spirit Images in the Work of Maurice Kenny
Lisa Tatonetti

Appendix: Maurice Kenny’s Molly Brant: From Poetry to Play
Alan Steinberg

Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Penelope Myrtle Kelsey, of Seneca descent, is Associate Professor of English and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She is the author of Tribal Theory in Native American Literature: Dakota and Haudenosaunee Writing and Indigenous Worldviews.