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    The Oxford handbook of indigenous American literature / edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.

    • Title:The Oxford handbook of indigenous American literature / edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Cox, James H. (James Howard), 1968- editor.
      Justice, Daniel Heath, editor.
      Xwi7xwa Collection
    • Published/Created:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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    • FNHL (Xwi7xwa) Subjects:Indigenous Peoples--Literature--History and criticism.
    • Library of Congress Subjects: American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
      Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
      Indians in literature.
    • Description:xxii, 741 pages ; 25 cm
    • Series:Oxford handbooks.
    • Summary:Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of the field.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9780199914036
      0199914036
    • Contents:Introduction: Post-Renaissance Indigenous American Literary Studies / James H. Cox and Daniel H. Justice
      Part I Histories
      1. The Sovereign Obscurity of Inuit Literature / Keavy Martin
      2. At the Crossroads of Red/Black Literature / Kiara M. Vigil and Tiya Miles
      3. Ambivalence and Contradiction in Contemporary Maya Literature from Yucatan: Jorge Cocom Pech's Muk'ult'an in Nool [Grandfather's Secrets] / Emilio Del Valle Escalante
      4. Early Native Literature as Social Practice / Phillip H. Round
      5. Recovering Jane Schoolcraft's Cultural Activism in the Nineteenth Century / Maureen Konkle
      6. Hawaiian Literature in Hawaiian: An Overview / Noenoe K. Silva
      7. Metis Identity and Literature / Kristina Fagan Bidwell
      8. Queering Indigenous Pasts, or Temporalities of Tradition and Settlement / Mark Rifkin
      9. Singing Forwards and Backwards: Ancestral and Contemporary Chamorro Poetics / Craig Santos Perez
      10. Indigenous Orality and Oral Literatures / Christopher Teuton
      11. Megwa Baabaamiiaayaayaang Dibaajomoyaang: Anishinaabe Literature as Memory in Motion / Margaret Noodin
      Part II - Genres
      12. Native Nonfiction / Robert Warrior
      13. Toward a Native American Women's Autobiographical Tradition: Genre as Political Practice / Crystal M. Kurzen
      14. Ixtlamatiliztli/Knowledge with the Face: Intellectual Migrations and Colonial Displacements in Natalio Hernandez's Xochikoskatl / Adam W. Coon
      15. "Our Leaves of Paper Will Be/Dancing Lightly": Indigenous Poetics / Sophie Mayer
      16. The Story of Movement: Natives and Performance Culture / LeAnne Howe
      17. Published Native American Drama, 1970-2011 / Alexander Pettit
      18. Indigenous American Cinema / Denise K. Cummings
      19. Reading the Visual, Seeing the Verbal: Text and Image in Recent American Indian Literature and Art / Dean Rader
      20. The Indigenous Novel / Sean Kicummah Teuton
      21. Indigenous Children's Literature / Loriene Roy
      22. Red Dead Conventions: American Indian Transgenric Fictions / Jodi A. Byrd
      Part III - Methods
      23. Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water / Shari M. Huhndorf
      24. Decolonizing Comparison: Towards a Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies / Chadwick Allen
      25. Indigenous Trans/Nationalism and the Ethics of Theory in Native Literary Studies / Joseph Bauerkemper
      26. Beyond Continuance: Criticism of Indigenous Literatures in Canada / Sam McKegney
      27. All that is Native and Fine: Teaching Native American Literature / Frances Washburn
      28. Teaching Native Literature Responsibly in a Multiethnic Course / Channette Romero
      29. Between "Colonizer-Perpetrator" and "Colonizer-Ally": Toward a Pedagogy of Redress / Renate Eigenbrod
      30. Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen / Craig Womack
      31. A Basket is a Basket Because...: Telling a Native Rhetorics Story / Malea Powell
      32. New Tribalism and Chicana/o Indigeneity on the Work of Gloria Anzaldua / Domino Renee Perez
      Part IV - Geographies
      33. Literature and the Red Atlantic / Jace Weaver
      34. The Re/Presentation of the Indigenous Caribbean in Literature / Shona N. Jackson
      35. Writing and Lasting: Native Northeastern Literary History / Lisa Brooks
      36. Decolonizing Indigenous Oratures and Literatures of Northern British North America and Canada (Beginnings to 1960) / Margery Fee
      37. Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960-2012) / Warren Cariou
      38. Amerika Samoa: Writing Home / Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard
      39. Native Literatures of Alaska / James Ruppert
      40. The Popol Wuj and the Birth of Mayan Literature / Thomas Ward
      41. Keeping Oklahoma Indian Territory: Alice Callahan and John Oskison (Indian Enough) / Joshua B. Nelson
      42. Francophone Aboriginal Literature in Quebec / Sarah Henzi
      Afterwords
      I ka 'Olelo ke Ola, in Words is Life: Imagining the Future of Indigenous Literatures / ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui.
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