{"product_id":"sherman-alexie-a-collection-of-critical-essays-9781607810087","title":"Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world.  A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning \u003ci\u003eThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in print and on the big screen.  Editors Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush have assembled twelve leading scholars of American Indian literature to provide new perspectives on a writer with his finger on the pulse of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterdisciplinary in their approach to Alexie's work, these essays cover the writer's entire career, and are insightful and accessible to scholars and lay readers alike.  This volume is a worthy companion to the work of one of our nations's most recognized contemporary voices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The bar is raised. I believe this work will be seen as a role model for literary criticism of Native American fiction, poetry, and film.\"—Simon Ortiz, poet and professor of English at Arizona State University\u003c\/p\u003e \"An important and timely work.... This volume sets a high standard of scholarship for those committed to grappling with the broader complexities of Alexie's life and work. The collaborative tenor of the project is particularly refreshing, because it invites scholars to converse across disciplines in order to keep pace with an iconic writer whose literary reputation now extends far beyond the Pacific Northwest.\"—\u003ci\u003ePacific Northwest Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"An exciting addition to the growing body of scholarship on Sherman Alexie's work. The extensive bibliography of work by and about Alexie that appears at the end of this collection alone makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars and future scholars of Alexie's work.\"\u003ci\u003e—Studies in American Indian Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman A Collection of Critical Essays\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexie:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: “Imagination Turns Every Word into a Bottle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Rocket”: An Introduction to Sherman Alexie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Jeff Berglund\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDancing That Way, Things Began to Change: The Ghost Dance as Pantribal Metaphor in Sherman Alexie’s Writing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Lisa Tatonetti\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Survival = Anger x Imagination”: Sherman Alexie’s Dark Humor\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Philip Heldrich\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An Extreme Need to Tell the Truth”: Silence and Language in Sherman Alexie’s “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Elizabeth Archuleta\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRock and Roll, Redskins, and Blues in Sherman Alexie’s Work \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     P. Jane Hafen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis Is What It Means to Say Reservation Cinema: Making Cinematic Indians in \u003ci\u003eSmoke Signals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     James H. Cox\u003c\/p\u003eNative Sensibility and the Significance of Women in \u003ci\u003eSmoke Signals\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Angelica Lawson\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Distinctive Sonority of Sherman Alexie’s Indigenous Poetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Susan Berry Brill de RamÍrez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Poetics of Tribalism in Sherman Alexie’s \u003ci\u003eThe Summer of Black Widows\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Nancy J. Peterson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherman Alexie’s Challenge to the Academy’s Teaching of Native American Literature, Non-Native Writers, and Critics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Patrice Hollrah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Indians Do Not Live in Cities, They Only Reside There”: Captivity and the Urban Wilderness in \u003ci\u003eIndian Killer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Meredith James\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndigenous Liaisons: Sex\/Gender Variability, Indianness, and Intimacy in Sherman Alexie’s \u003ci\u003eThe Toughest Indian in the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Stephen F. Evans\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSherman Alexie’s Transformation of “Ten Little Indians”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Margaret O’Shaughnessey\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHealing the Soul Wound in \u003ci\u003eFlight\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Jan Johnson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Business of Writing: Sherman Alexie’s Meditations on Authorship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e     Jeff Berglund\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041640153431,"sku":"9781607810087","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781607810087.jpg?v=1750951105","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sherman-alexie-a-collection-of-critical-essays-9781607810087","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}