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Native Americans, Archaeologists & the Mounds
ISBN: 9780820455266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds, explanations and interpretations of them often ridiculous and seldom Native American have appeared as sober scholarship. Today, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA) has intensified the debate over who -owns- the mounds modern descendants of the Mound builders or Western archaeologists. Native Americans, Archaeologists, and the Mounds is the first cogent look at all the issues surrounding the mounds, their history, their preservation, and their interpretation. Using the...
Ever since European settlers stumbled upon the eighteenth-century mounds, explanations and interpretations of them often ridiculous and seldom Native ...
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Ecocriticism and the Creation of Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures
ISBN: 9780820456614 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of diverse ethnicity who have attempted to recover a sense of home, identity, community, and place in response to various forms of displacement caused by such forces as colonization, racial and sexual oppression, and environmental alienation. Working from an ecocritical perspective that investigates -place- as inherent in configurations of the self and in the establishment of community and holistic well being, this book examines the centrality of...
Ecocriticism: Creating Self and Place in Environmental and American Indian Literatures studies twentieth-century poets and prose writers of div...
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The Novels of Louise Erdrich; Stories of Her People
ISBN: 9780820440279 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ancestors. From the tribe s struggle to survive (Tracks), to the Depression (The Beet Queen), to the mid-twentieth century (Love Medicine), to contemporary times (The Bingo Palace, Tales of Burning Love, and The Antelope Wise), Erdrich sympathetically, compassionately, and realistically renders a portrait of people striving to survive governmental bureaucracy, Catholic Church intrusion, and climatic severity."
Louise Erdrich positions herself as a contemporary tribal storyteller with her interlocking tales of her Chippewa people and her German-American ances...
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Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Myths from the Arapaho to the Zuñi: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780820452869 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons were at the center of a large body of myths in which they played important roles, from creators of earth and all life to heroes (male and female) in battle. From approximately 160 extant Native American myths, Jim Elledge has selected all those which would be most readily identifiable by contemporary readers as dealing with gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered individuals, as well as those which focus on them as prominent, if not main, characters in the myths. He has located a literature that existed long before the European colonization...
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered persons were at the center of a large body of myths in which they played important roles, from creators of e...
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Southwestern American Indian Literature; In the Classroom and Beyond
ISBN: 9780820463445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian literature presents, and suggests innovative ways of teaching the material. Drawing on the author s experiences teaching literature both in the classroom and in the canyons of the Southwest the book covers works ranging from the famous (Leslie Marmon Silko s Ceremony) to the underappreciated (George Webb s A Pima Remembers). One chapter discusses teaching Sherman Alexie s Smoke Signals along with Silko s -Yellow Woman- as...
Southwestern American Indian Literature: In the Classroom and Beyond addresses several challenges that teaching Southwestern American Indian li...
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Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature Second Printing
ISBN: 9780820442983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Starting with the premise that American Indians have been colonized, Horne outlines the dangers of colonial mimicry. She proposes a theory of subversive mimicry through which writers can use the language of the colonial power to subvert it and inscribe diverse First Nations voices. Drawing on select works by Thomas King, Beatrice Culleton, Ruby Slipperjack, Jeannette Armstrong, Lee Maracle, and Tomson Highway, the study also elucidates decolonizing strategies with which readers can collaborate.
Starting with the premise that American Indians have been colonized, Horne outlines the dangers of colonial mimicry. She proposes a theory of subversi...
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Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures
ISBN: 9780820439013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures focuses on the discourses about selected legacies and writings predominantly of eastern Native North America. Ron Welburn skillfully approaches diverse subjects through scholarly and personal modes. More specifically, the book begins with the author reflecting on the sign talk of fifties television s Pahoo-Ka-Ta-Wah, and it concludes with a discussion of a narrative by thirties Chippewa author Thomas Whitecloud. Other essays inquire about the southeastern Blackfoot, Jeffrey Amherst, and literary theories. Still...
Roanoke and Wampum: Topics in Native American Heritage and Literatures focuses on the discourses about selected legacies and writings predomina...
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