- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Routledge (8 Feb 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415579430
- ISBN-13: 978-0415579438
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 1.3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,006,357 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Native American literature explores divides between public and private cultures, ethnicities and experience. In this volume, Joseph Coulombe argues that Native American writers use diverse narrative strategies to engage with readers and are ‘writing for connection’ with both Native and non-Native audiences.
Beginning with a historical overview of Native American literature, this book presents focused readings of key texts including:
• N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn
• Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony
• Gerald Vizenor’s Bearheart
• James Welch’s Fool’s Crow
• Sherman Alexie’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven
• Linda Hogan’s Power.
Suggesting new ways towards a sensitive engagement with tribal cultures, this book provides not only a comprehensive introduction to Native American literature but also a critical framework through which it may be read.
About the Author
Joseph L. Coulombe is Associate Professor of English at Rowan University, USA. He is author of Mark Twain and the American West (2003) and has published articles on Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Walt Whitman, Sherman Alexie, James Welch, and Emerson Bennett.
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Coulombe's "Reading Native American Literature
9 April 2011
Format:Paperback
Just in time for college teachers to add it to their fall semester syllabi, Joseph L. Coulombe of Rowan University has published his teaching aid to Native literature. A thorough and respectful survey of his canon of Native literature, "Reading Native American Literature" is a useful textbook for teachers and researchers of the modern Native novel.
Coulombe, a white professor writing for a primarily white, middle-class readership, begins his book with a well-researched and informative history of Native and white relations in the USA, and how our collective Native literature has progressed with that. This provides context for outsiders who are unfamiliar with the place from which many of our authors write. After his historical introduction, Coulombe goes on to survey the canon of Native literature that he teaches in his classes: N. Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn," Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony," Gerald Vizenor's "Bearheart," James Welch's "Fools Crow" and "Heartsong of Charging Elk," Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," and Linda Hogan's "Power."
Each of these chapters is a stand-alone critique of the individual texts, making this a perfect book for a scholar or teacher who may be professionally interested in one or two but not all of the books. That is not to say that one can't read the book cover-to-cover. As "Reading Native American Literature" is a continuation of Coulombe's classes in Native literature, it would be fascinating to read the books he considers, and then to read his chapter on that book, as if one were taking a class from him. Coulombe has done his reading and knows his stuff, but he approaches the subject of our literature respectfully and gingerly by acknowledging all that he, as an outsider, doesn't know.
While the books Coulombe considers should be on in any Indian's and interested non-Indian's book-shelf, "Reading Native American Literature" is not intended for the lay person. But if your interest in our literature extends past reading it and into the realm of studying it, Coulombe's new book is worth a read.
Coulombe, a white professor writing for a primarily white, middle-class readership, begins his book with a well-researched and informative history of Native and white relations in the USA, and how our collective Native literature has progressed with that. This provides context for outsiders who are unfamiliar with the place from which many of our authors write. After his historical introduction, Coulombe goes on to survey the canon of Native literature that he teaches in his classes: N. Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn," Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony," Gerald Vizenor's "Bearheart," James Welch's "Fools Crow" and "Heartsong of Charging Elk," Sherman Alexie's "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," and Linda Hogan's "Power."
Each of these chapters is a stand-alone critique of the individual texts, making this a perfect book for a scholar or teacher who may be professionally interested in one or two but not all of the books. That is not to say that one can't read the book cover-to-cover. As "Reading Native American Literature" is a continuation of Coulombe's classes in Native literature, it would be fascinating to read the books he considers, and then to read his chapter on that book, as if one were taking a class from him. Coulombe has done his reading and knows his stuff, but he approaches the subject of our literature respectfully and gingerly by acknowledging all that he, as an outsider, doesn't know.
While the books Coulombe considers should be on in any Indian's and interested non-Indian's book-shelf, "Reading Native American Literature" is not intended for the lay person. But if your interest in our literature extends past reading it and into the realm of studying it, Coulombe's new book is worth a read.
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