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Sherman 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 The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.

Now, 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.

Interdisciplinary 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright, Dedication
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. viii-x
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  1. Introduction. "Imagination Turns Every Word into a Bottle Rocket": An Introduction to Sherman Alexie
  2. Jeff Berglund
  3. pp. xi-xl
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  1. 1. Dancing That Way, Things Began to Change: The Ghost Dance as Pantribal Metaphor in Sherman Alexie’s Writing
  2. Lisa Tatonetti
  3. pp. 1-24
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  1. 2. “Survival = Anger × Imagination”: Sherman Alexie’s Dark Humor
  2. Philip Heldrich
  3. pp. 25-43
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  1. 3. “An Extreme Need to Tell the Truth”: Silence and Language in Sherman Alexie’s “The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire”
  2. Elizabeth Archuleta
  3. pp. 44-61
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  1. 4. Rock and Roll, Redskins, and Blues in Sherman Alexie’s Work
  2. P. Jane Hafen
  3. pp. 62-73
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  1. 5. This Is What It Means to Say Reservation Cinema: Making Cinematic Indians in Smoke Signals
  2. James H. Cox
  3. pp. 74-94
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  1. 6. Native Sensibility and the Significance of Women in Smoke Signals
  2. Angelica Lawson
  3. pp. 95-106
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  1. 7. The Distinctive Sonority of Sherman Alexie’s Indigenous Poetics
  2. Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez
  3. pp. 107-133
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  1. 8. The Poetics of Tribalism in Sherman Alexie’s The Summer of Black Widows
  2. Nancy J. Peterson
  3. pp. 134-158
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  1. 9. Sherman Alexie’s Challenge to the Academy’s Teaching of Native American Literature, Non-Native Writers, and Critics
  2. Patrice Hollrah
  3. pp. 159-170
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  1. 10. “Indians Do Not Live in Cities, They Only Reside There”: Captivity and the Urban Wilderness in Indian Killer
  2. Meredith James
  3. pp. 171-185
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  1. 11. Indigenous Liaisons: Sex/Gender Variability, Indianness, and Intimacy in Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World
  2. Stephen F. Evans
  3. pp. 186-211
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  1. 12. Sherman Alexie’s Transformation of “Ten Little Indians”
  2. Margaret O'Shaughnessey
  3. pp. 212-223
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  1. 13. Healing the Soul Wound in Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
  2. Jan Johnson
  3. pp. 224-240
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  1. 14. The Business of Writing: Sherman Alexie’s Meditations on Authorship
  2. Jeff Berglund
  3. pp. 241-264
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 265-268
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 269-292
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 293-303
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