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- Feathering Custer
- Book
- 2001
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
summary
The noted Nez Perce fiction writer and critic W. S. Penn turns his wry and penetrating gaze on the state of modern Native life and literature and considers how modern scholarship has affected the ways Natives and others see themselves and their world. The result is a uniquely frank, witty, and unsettling critique of contemporary theory and its ability to come to terms with the real lives and literatures of Natives in North America.
Key to this critique is the troubling issue of what properly constitutes a traditional "Indian" identity and an "Indian" literature within Native communities and in the academy. In confronting this issue, Penn exposes some of the sillier uses of the serious language of diversity as well as the impact of identity politics on Native professors. And yet, Penn argues, the storytelling traditions so central to Native communities remain very much alive today, hidden in the corners of the literary canon.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. viii
- Tonto Meets Chuang Tzu
- pp. 1-27
- Paving with Good Intentions
- pp. 29-64
- Leaving the Parlor
- pp. 91-103
- Donne Talkin'
- pp. 105-133
- Killing Ourselves with Language as Such
- pp. 135-150
- In the Gazebo
- pp. 151-178
- In the Garden of the Gods
- pp. 179-190
- Feathering Custer
- pp. 191-220
- Critical Arts
- pp. 221-226
Additional Information
ISBN
9780803202313
MARC Record
OCLC
51074337
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No