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Title:
Sherman Alexie : a collection of critical essays / edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush.
Author:
Berglund, Jeff, editor.

Roush, Jan, editor.
Publication Information:
Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press, ©2010.
Call Number:
PS3551 .L35774 Z87 2010
Abstract:
A collection of critical essays on the writing and films of American Indian author Sherman Alexie.
ISBN:
9781607810087
Physical Description:
xxxix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Contents:
"Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor / "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship
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