"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...