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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Momaday"”.
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
… Made of Dawn </em>(1968)<em></em>by N. Scott Momaday and <em>Ceremony </em>(1977) by Leslie Marmon Silko. Both novelists consistently evoke animal imagery within their respective texts often pairing this imagery alongside symbolic and metaphorical depictions of cannibalistic identity violence. …
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The Treatment of American Indians in Selected American Literature: A Radical Critique
… Jackson, Sandoz, Corle, Manfred, Borland, and Momaday. I examine the following questions: What political statements explicitly or implicitly does a particular work make? Does a specific work reinforce or support stereotyped notions of American Indians, and if so, does it support or reinforce …
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Broadening the circle : the evolution of survivance and mimicry as theme in selected Native American drama.
… would later term, "survivance," and N. Scott Momaday's first play, The Indolent Boys, turned to the postcolonial concept of mimicry as a means of resisting the cultural erasure of America's boarding school project. Randy Reinholz' play, Off the Rails, which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare …
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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… useful in focusing my conclusions. N. Scott Momaday's The Ancient Child explores the parameters of representation and struggles with the question of how an Indian author can effectively describe the condition of an alienated American Indian to an audience who is, for the most part, …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… As this study focuses on novels by N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, John Okada, and Louis Chu, it forces the distinction between war and postwar novels, and it analyzes the veteran as a strategic figure for embodying the discrepancies of American racial ideologies in theory versus …
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An Approach to the Study of American Indian Literature at the College Level
… curriculum guide and teach a novel by N. Scott Momaday or a group of poems by Ray Young Bear. To understand and to teach American Indian literature is more difficult than is apparent on the surface. Although a teacher could "get by" with a superficial treatment of a novel or poem, such …
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Coming home: storytelling, place, and identity in N. Scott Momaday's House made of down and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony
… in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn. Coming home for characters Tayo and Abel involves redirecting of isolated individual energy to the whole community, enabling them to return to their estranged homes. Traumatic experiences in the war have alienated these …