{"product_id":"tribal-theory-in-native-american-literature-9780803232730","title":"Tribal Theory in Native American Literature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on Dakota writers and storytellers, Seneca critic Penelope Myrtle Kelsey offers a penetrating assessment of theory and interpretation in indigenous literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Kelsey delineates a method for formulating a Native-centred theory to derive a worldview or an equivalent to Western theory that is emic to indigenous worldviews.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well positioned within current scholarship on Native American literatures, this study offers a much-needed view of how, and why, Native American literary studies need to progress.\"—C. L. Sheffield, \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kelsey's analyses are insightful and intelligent, and her familiarity with Dakota language and culture provides a significant and very helpful grounding for her readings of the texts.\"—Lucy Maddox, \u003ci\u003eStudies in American Indian Literatures\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Well-written and exceptionally thoughtful, Penelope Kelsey’s theoretical framework does for Dakota literature what still needs to be done for most Native American literatures. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Cultural or Native American Studies. Although intelligent and well-researched, it never sinks into jargon or convolution; rather it speaks about specific Dakota literature and speaks about it well.”—W. S. Penn, author of \u003ci\u003eKilling Time with Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAll My Sins Are Relatives\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How can we argue against Indigenous erasure and invisibility when we accept our colonization by our behavior? Be thankful Kelsey’s Tribal Theory in Native American Literature asks us to take up the challenge and task on behalf of Indigenous land, culture, and community!”—Simon J. Ortiz, author of \u003ci\u003eOut There Somewhere\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWoven Stone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTribal Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a necessary work, which etches out a roadmap to a literary critical practice, independent of Eurocentric landmarks. Here, as in the tradition of the Dakota, Kelsey serves as “culture bearer” in the face of academic assimilation. The work is a significant gesture within the grand movement toward intellectual sovereignty upon which the survival of our pueblos depends.”—Cherríe L. Moraga, author of \u003ci\u003eLoving in the Wars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last Generation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTribal Theory in Native American Literature\u003c\/i\u003e Penelope Kelsey takes a significant new step in the criticism of Native American writing. Focusing on writers in the Dakota tradition such as Zitkala-Ša and Charles Eastman, Professor Kelsey shows with verve and skill, and a keen sense of continuity and change, the importance of mastering specific tribal systems of knowledge in interpretation of the works of native writers. Her particular readings are original and rich with brilliant new revelations of literary uses of cultural tradition.\"—Alan Trachtenberg, emeritus professor of American studies, Yale University, and author of\u003ci\u003e Shades of Hiawatha: Staging Indians, Making Americans in the Early 20th Century\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Tables\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor's Note\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Indigenous Knowledge as Tribal Theory\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Pictographs and Politics in Marie McLaughlin's Myths and Legends of the Sioux: A Dakota Storyteller in the Oza Tradition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Charles Eastman's Role in Native American Resistance Literature: A \"Real Indian\" to the Boy Scouts\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Zitkala a, Sentiment, and Tiopaye: Reading Dakota Rhetorics of Nation and Gender\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Ella Deloria's Decolonizing Role as Camp Historian in Waterlily: Sisters, Brothers, and the Hakata Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. A Gendered Future: Wi and Hawi in Contemporary Dakota Writing   6. Tribal Theory Travels: Kanien'kehaka Poet Maurice Kenny and the Gantowisas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405249159511,"sku":"9780803232730","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780803232730.jpg?v=1730489278","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tribal-theory-in-native-american-literature-9780803232730","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}