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An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction

This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture.

Rather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist''s eye and a critic''s mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.

Native American Fiction: A User''s Manual is speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essayson Sherman Alexie, Forrest Carter, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welchare rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.

Native American Fiction: A User's Manual

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      Publisher Graywolf Press
      Published 22 August 2006
      ISBN-13 9781555974527
      978-1555974527
      ISBN-10 155597452X
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      Literature: history and criticism

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction

      This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture.

      Rather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist''s eye and a critic''s mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.

      Native American Fiction: A User''s Manual is speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essayson Sherman Alexie, Forrest Carter, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welchare rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.

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