CMUL e-Book DatabaseToward a Native American critical theory
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2003
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| ISBN | 0803237375, 9780803237377,
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| Language |
English
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| Subject | American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc. Criticism -- United States. Indians in literature. Indians of North America -- Intellectual life. LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. -- bisacsh |
Description
Toward a Native American Critical Theory articulates the foundations and boundaries of a distinctive Native American critical theory in this postcolonial era. In the first book-length study devoted to this subject, Elvira Pulitano offers a survey of the theoretical underpinnings of works by noted Native writers Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor. In her analysis Pulitano confronts key issues and questions: Is a distinctive way of reading and interpreting Native texts possible or needed? What is the relation between a Native American critical discourse and a more general postcolonial critical theory? Will Native critical theory be subsumed within postcolonial theory and homogenized as a colonial Other, or will it test postcolonial ideas against Native American problems and predicaments? And how can Native critical theory redefine Western styles of theory?