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Turn to the Native Studies in Criticism & Culture

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ISBN-10: 0803277865

ISBN-13: 9780803277861

Edition: 1998

Authors: Arnold Krupat

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The Turn to the Nativeis a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural “essentialism,” the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural “sovereignty” and “property,” and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, “A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians,” presents the author’s effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western…    
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Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 149
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.94" long x 0.36" tall
Weight: 0.616

Jerome Klinkowitz (Ph.D. Wisconsin), is University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English at the University of Northern Iowa. He is the author or editor of over forty books in postwar culture and literature, among them,nbsp;Structuring the Void: The Struggle for Subject in Contemporary American Fiction; Kurt Vonnegut's America; Literary Disruptions: The Making of a Post-Contemporary American Fiction; and The Practice of Fiction in America: Writers from Hawthorne to the Present.Arnold Krupat (Ph.D. Columbia) is Professor of Literature at Sarah Lawrence College.nbsp;He is the author of, among other books, Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature; Red Matters: Native American…    

Preface
Criticism and Native American Literature
Postcolonialism, Ideology, and Native American Literature
Ratio- and Natio� in Gerald Vizenor's Heirs of Columbus
Dead Voices, Living Voice: on the Autobiographical Writing of Gerald Vizenor
A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians
Notes
Works Cited
Index