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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Sherman Alexie"”.
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In “the American Strain”: The Hybrid Poetry of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Chin, and Sherman Alexie
… poet, Marilyn Chin, and Native American poet, Sherman Alexie. Chin describes her cultural position and poetics as hybrid, and Alexie’s poetry explores and formally reflects the “in-between”, a liminal position between the American and Indian components of his identity. This lineage, like the …
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Blues Trope as a Cultural Intersection in Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar and Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues
… writer Alice Walker and Native American author Sherman Alexie the blues trope is a successful literary device in expressing long lost and rediscovered emotions, identities and hopes among an ever growing multiethnic nation.
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Poetry matters: Radical politics in postmodern American poetry
… Howe, Robert Grenier, Gary Snyder, A.R. Ammons, Sherman Alexie, and Kenneth Goldsmith—examined in this dissertation illustrates, postmodernism is a period in which multiple modes or versions of postmodern poetry exist and flourish.</p>
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Intergenerational Trauma in African and Native American Literatures
… by Native American authors Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie, both vocal advocates of educating the lost generations - those who were forbidden to learn of and practice their language or tribal rituals due to colonialism - as well as Anglo-Americans on the importance of preserving the culture …
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The Diary of a Vanishing Indian: Arnold Spirit's Assimilation in Sherman Alexie's YA Novel the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
… Indian autobiographies and their relevance to Sherman Alexie’s Young Adult novel The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. The introduction and subsequent chapters provide a background on Indian autobiographies and present a critical reading of Alexie’s text, arguing that, just as Indian …