American Literature, vol. 86, no. 3, September 2014, pp. 611-614
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Book reviews of:
Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina.
The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd.
On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman.
Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 104-106
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Book review of: Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars’ Club by Christopher B. Teuton.
Entire article on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 104.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 10, no. 2, Series 2; [Special Issue on] Louis Owens, Summer, 1998, pp. 6-22
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Interview with the author of Wolfsong and Other Destin[i]es: Understanding the American Indian Novel.
Entire issue on one PDF. To access article, scroll down to appropriate page.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 343-362
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Literary criticism article (from a conference paper) which uses the text Green Grass, Running Water by Thomas King to illustrate the conversation narrative style of many Indigenous authors.
Comments on three aspects to the act of witnessing: an effective response, an intellectual engagement, and an ethical responsibility to the narrative and its narrator.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 7.
Discusses the novel The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch as a conflicting perspective between European-American worldviews and Native American worldviews.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 305-325
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Contends contemporary authors like Owen's explore the complexites of relationships fundamental to individual and cultural identity in an attempt to rediscover a sense of place and community, but also to bring about political and cultural change.
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 26, no. 2, Tribalography, Summer, 2014, pp. 13-25
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Discusses how LeAnne Howe’s writing combines historic and contemporary cross-cultural interactions to bridge the gaps between sovereignty, issues of land and place, history, and culture.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 13.
Journal of Northern Studies, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 29-42
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Discusses Historia by Olaus Magnus and Lapponia by Johannes Schefferus which both contain themes of the Sami people, their way of life, skills, and magical powers.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 4, Autumn, 1998, pp. 469-484
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Contends that the authenticity of the autobiographical work, Crashing Thunder edited by Paul Radin, relies in large part on the circumspect confessions of the narrator, Sam Blowsnake, and should be approached as trickster discourse.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 259-279
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Literary criticism article in which the author examines the ways that Hopkins uses liminality and liminal identity as a means of social critique and of subversion, as well as an intersection of creativity.
NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, vol. 1, no. 2, Fall, 2014, pp. 89-104
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Comments on the "chain of symbolic associations between the Indigenous, in particular the Choctaw, and Lennon and The Beatles that extends across much of the novel".
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 5, no. 3, 1981, pp. 1-12
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Looks at cross-cultural language shift, cultural resistance to it's assimilationist effects, and connection between literary output and political activism.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 1/2, Winter-Spring, 1998, pp. 104-115
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Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 22, no. 3, Summer, 1998, pp. 326-342
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Literary criticism piece in which the author considers the fictional writings and autobiography of Oliver La Farge, who was both a novelist and an anthropologist; argues that La Farge’s work engages in a process of critique of the anthropology and ethnography disciplines.