Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 1999 "Dreams of Fiery Stars is an original, substantial, and well-conceived contribution to the field of Native American studies. Rainwater's book finds its targets and explodes much if not most of the nonsense that has been written about Native American novels and, by extension, Native American literature, art, dance, drama, and tradition. Rainwater refocuses attention on the evolution of and diversity among Native writers. Her discussion is a sophisticated, well-researched, and much needed addition to the...
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book, 1999 "Dreams of Fiery Stars is an original, substantial, and well-conceived...
Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walker all seem to be especially concerned with narrative management. The ten essays in this book raise new and intriguing questions about the ways these leading women writers appropriate and transform generic norms and ultimately revise literary tradition to make it more inclusive of female experience, vision, and expression.
The contributors to this volume discover diverse narrative strategies. Beattie, Dillard, Paley, and Redmon in divergent...
Ann Beattie, Annie Dillard, Maxine Hong Kingston, Toni Morrison, Cynthia Ozick, Grace Paley, Marge Piercy, Anne Redmon, Anne Tyler, and Alice Walke...
This is a collection of fifteen essays which expose weaknesses in western epistemological frames of reference that for centuries have limited our views, and, thus, our experiences of animal being, including our own. The volume contributes to current discussions of new ways of seeing the other inhabitants of this world and more effective ways of sharing the world with them. The contributors draw on and complement the growing field of ecocriticism, but because the contributors draw on an array of disciplinary and cultural perspectives, it will appeal to a wide audience, ranging from literary...
This is a collection of fifteen essays which expose weaknesses in western epistemological frames of reference that for centuries have limited our view...
The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth in understanding of Native American literature in general and of Silko s work in particular to unpack this fascinating work and its critical reception over the years."
The essays collected in this book, addressing both the original edition of Storyteller and the 2012 revision, use the growth in understanding of Nativ...
