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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"N. Scott"”.
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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 …
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Broadening the circle : the evolution of survivance and mimicry as theme in selected Native American drama.
… Vizenor 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 …
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"Too Big to Swallow All at Once": Consumption and Posthuman Healing in Ceremony and House Made of Dawn
… <em>House 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 …
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Literature and the Long Postwar: Recuperating the Post-45 Veteran
… soldiers. 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
… plan or 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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The healing power : mythology as medicine in contemporary American Indian literature
… prove 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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'How can you go to a Church that killed so many Indians?' : Representations of Christianity in 20th century Native American novels
Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht Romane indianischer Autorinnen und Autoren des 20. Jahrhunderts hinsichtlich ihrer Repräsentation von Konflikten zwischen amerikanischen Ureinwohnern und der vorherrschenden christlichen Religion des allgemeinen gesellschaftlichen Umfelds. Verschiedene Schwerpunkte …