Teuton / Pease Red Land, Red Power

Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8904-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: New Americanists

A new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Teuton, Sean Kicummah

Pease, Donald E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Preface xiii

Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center 1

Part I. Red Land

1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn 43

2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood 79

Part II. Red Power

3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's ` 119

4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism 157

Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel 197

Notes 235

Bibliography 257

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Sean Kicummah Teuton is Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.