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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Native American literature"”.
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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Queer Panic in Native American Literature
Indigenous American sexual minorities and alternatively gendered voices went underground due to Eurowestern sexual colonization from the time of the conquistador invasions of the early 16th century to the political campaigns of cultural homogenization of the mid-20th century. A cultural distortion …
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Decolonizing Gender: Indigenous Feminism and Native American Literature
An Indigenous feminist approach to Native literature reveals the ways in which Native authors attempt to build balanced relationships and conversations across cultures, nations, and histories. I explore ways that Native authors depict gender violence and male characters who, like Native women, …
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Conflict and Reconciliation: Representations of Christianity in Contemporary Native American Literature by Women
<p>The Native American literary Renaissance of the 1970s and 1980s created a web of American Indian voices interpreting the past, indicting America’s imperialism alongside Christianity for its participation in conquest, and renegotiating the cultural possibilities and losses resulting from colonial …
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Seeking the chameleon: the influence of native rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature
… the impact of rhetoric and the oral tradition on Native American literature by demonstrating that unique features are evident as a direct result of this influence. Characteristics which have functioned to preserve their culture (e.g.; the morphogenetic nature of Native mythology, the reverence for …
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The underside of borders: reading Chican@ and Native American literature at the turn of the twenty-first century
“The Underside of Borders: Reading Chican@ and Native American Literature at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century” focuses on Chican@ and Native American novels published from 1990 to the present. Teasing out the common denominators of different methodologies grouped under the umbrella term “border …
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Journeying to a Third Space of Sovereignty: Explorations of Land, Cultural Hybridity, and Sovereignty in <em>Ceremony</em> and <em>There There</em>
<p>In Native American literature, there is a discourse that solely focuses on the relationship between Indigenous people and the land. This relationship is vital to understanding the traditions, rituals, storytelling, and practices of Native Americans. The presence of settler colonialism changes …
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Ethnographic Criticism and Native American Fiction: Cultural Texts, Textual Culture in the Novels of James Welch
… processes of discipline formation in studies of Native American fiction using the first three novels of the widely acclaimed writer James Welch---Winter in the Blood (1974), The Death of Jim Loney (1979), and Fools Crow (1986). Through Welch's diverse works, I attend to two levels of critical …
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Living in Excess: Narrating Violence and Presence in Native American and Chicana Literature
… the ways in which a comparative study of Native American, First Nations, and Chicanx narratives of erasure and presence reveals remarkable and significant shared characteristics. This extensive comparison demonstrates these narratives’ similar modes of theorizing representations of the …
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Red ink: Native Americans picking up the pen in the colonial period
<p>This dissertation looks at the ways that Native Americans appropriated alphabetic literacy for their own purposes in the colonial period. Studies of Native writing tend to begin with the Mohegan preacher Samson Occom whose A Sermon Preached by Samson Occom (1772) is the first known publication …
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The case of the Indian detective: Native American mystery novels
… has become the preferred venue in which most Americans encounter fictional Indians. Hillerman’s success has helped produce a subgenre’s worth of imitators. Most of these Native sleuths have been invented by non-Native writers, who tend to follow the dictates of the genre closely. Their …
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The Native new wave: creative sovereignty in twenty-first century Indigenous genre fiction
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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Wide open spaces: place, empire, and U.S.-indigenous relations, 1816-1907
… borders of the U.S. settler nation-state and Native nations throughout the nineteenth century. The project looks at three key sites, Florida, Cuba, and Oklahoma, to unpack how statehood debates challenged the U.S. to determine who and what to include within its borders. Print culture narrated …
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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 …