Journal of Canadian Studies, vol. 46, no. 2, Special Issue: Finding Common Ground, Spring, 2012, pp. 178-195
Description
Comments on J. Edward Chamberlin’s belief in the formative power of story to be able to examine the role of public health narratives and their effect on daily bodily practices and experiences.
Wicazo Sa Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Spring, 1997, pp. 149-164
Description
Examines use of the bear as a literary device with possibilities for human animal relations, transformations, and the bear's connections to the beginnings of literature.
MELUS, vol. 20, no. 4, Maskers and Tricksters , Winter, 1995, pp. 75-90
Description
Argues that Chippawa author Gerald Vizenor's Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart is radical and traditional at the same time and makes extensive use of oral tradition while employing postmodern narrative strategies within a written text.
Explores the work of Blackfeet author James Welch who presents Native American and Western humanistic cultures in equally forceful ways in order to have a meeting of the two worlds.
Study focused on four novels: Fools Crow by James Welch, Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko, The Ancient Child by N. Scott Momaday and The Women Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1999.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 19, no. 4, Autumn, 1995, pp. 451-465
Description
Literary criticism article that considers Humishuma’s (Mourning Dove, aka Christine Quintasket) novel; examines the ways that the text was influenced and edited by Humishuma’s friend and mentor Lucullus V. McWhorter.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 27, no. 3/4, Urban American Indian Womens Activism, Summer-Fall, 2003, pp. 667-696
Description
Biographical sketch of the author of Waterlily, which was not published until 1988, forty years after it was completed and seventeen years after her death.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 9, no. 4, Autumn, 1985, pp. 411-420
Description
Reviews John Cleland's 1758 satirical play Tombo-Chiqui: or, The American Savage that reflected the noble ignorant savage stereotype prevalent in Europe during the eighteenth century.
MELUS, vol. 25, no. 3-4, Fall-Winter, 2000, pp. 87-116
Description
Discusses the connection between oppressor and oppressed and suggests reading to understand both perspectives leads to evaluating one's own response and eithics.
boundary 2, vol. 19, no. 3, 1492-1992: American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, Autumn, 1992, pp. 148-179
Description
Looks at texts translated from Lakota, the relationship to George Sword's writing, the history and comparison to transitional texts from other cultures.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 2, Spring, 2000, pp. 165-181
Description
Article engages in a postmodernist cultural critique of the process of “inverted appropriation” in which an oppressed or marginalized culture makes use of the technological or cultural pieces of the dominant cultures as a way of resisting assimilation and erasure.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 14, no. 3, Summer, 1990, pp. 277-287
Description
Uses postmodern discourse and theory to discuss the realities created in Indigenous narratives; focuses on the the trickster role as one that is both comic and critical in Indigenous story telling and meaning-making.