Stories Through Theories/ Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique

ISBN-13: 9780870138416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 327 str.

Gordon D. Henry Jr; Nieves Pascual Soler

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"Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories "explores the uneasy relationsoften contentious, sometimes complicitbetween American Indian Literature and literary theory. Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on "western depth models." Others work from a very different direction, finding critique in storytelling and processes of narrative production, thereby exposing dimensions of literary theory that grow from the indigenous ground of Native stories themselves.
This collection of essayssometimes playfully but always insistentlychanges our readings of Native works and challenges our roles as intellectual guides until we step deeper into the ambiguous territories where writer, listener, reader, and critic intersect.
Taken together, these essays provide compelling evidence for looking at primary Native cultures, authors, and histories as enrichments of Native literature."