Postindian Aesthetics
Title | Postindian Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Debra K. S. Barker |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2022-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0816546266 |
Postindian Aesthetics is a collection of critical, cutting-edge essays on a new generation of Indigenous writers who are creatively and powerfully contributing to a thriving Indigenous literary canon that is redefining the parameters of Indigenous literary aesthetics.
Louis Owens
Title | Louis Owens PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Lockard |
Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
Pages | 328 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 082636098X |
Louis Owens: Writing Land and Legacy explores the wide-ranging oeuvre of this seminal author, examining Owens's work and his importance in literature and Native studies. Of Choctaw, Cherokee, and Irish American descent, Owens's work includes mysteries, novels, literary scholarship, and autobiographical essays. Louis Owens offers a critical introduction and thirteen essays arranged into three sections: "Owens and the World," "Owens and California," and "The Novels." The essays present an excellent assessment of Owens's literary legacy, noting his contributions to American literature, ethnic literature, and Native American literature and highlighting his contributions to a variety of theories and genres. The collection concludes with a coda of personal poetic reflections on Owens by Diane Glancy and Kimberly Blaeser. Libraries, students, scholars, and the general public interested in Native American literature and the landscape of contemporary US literature will welcome this reflective volume that analyzes a vast range of Louis Owens's imaginative fictions, personal accounts, and critical work.
Restoring Relations Through Stories
Title | Restoring Relations Through Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Renae Watchman |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2024 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816550344 |
This insightful volume offers an analysis of land-based Diné and Dene imaginaries as embodied in their own cinematic, visual, and literary stories. Watchman uses literary and visual texts to explore how relations are restored, showing how literary linkages from land-based stories affirm kinship.
Unhappy Beginnings
Title | Unhappy Beginnings PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel González-Díaz |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2023-12-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000998207 |
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means.
Native Liberty
Title | Native Liberty PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Vizenor |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0803226217 |
Gerald Vizenor was a journalist for the Minneapolis Tribune when he discovered that his direct ancestors were the editor and publisher of The Progress, the first Native newspaper on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Vizenor, inspired by the kinship of nineteenth century Native journalists, has pursued a similar sense of resistance in his reportage, editorial essays, and literary art. Vizenor reveals in Native Liberty the political, poetic, visionary, and ironic insights of personal identity and narratives of cultural sovereignty. He examines singular acts of resistance, natural reason, literary practices, and other strategies of survivance that evade and subvert the terminal notions of tragedy and victimry. Native Liberty nurtures survivance and creates a sense of cultural and historical presence. Vizenor, a renowned Anishinaabe literary scholar and artist, writes in a direct narrative style that integrates personal experiences with original presentations, comparative interpretations, and critiques of legal issues and historical situations.
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics
Title | The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics PDF eBook |
Author | Ingrid Hotz-Davies |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 326 |
Release | 2017-09-22 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1351809512 |
"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp’s simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to offer an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.
Survivance
Title | Survivance PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Vizenor |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2008-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0803219024 |
In this anthology, eighteen scholars discuss the themes and practices of survivance in literature, examining the legacy of Vizenor's original insights and exploring the manifestations of survivance in a variety of contexts. Contributors interpret and compare the original writings of William Apess, Eric Gansworth, Louis Owens, Carter Revard, Gerald Vizenor, and Velma Wallis, among others.