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Along with Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine", Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" is one of the two most widely taught and studied Native American literature texts. In "Ceremony" Silko recounts a young man's search for consolation in his tribe's history and traditions, and his resulting voyage of self-discovery and discovery of the world. This casebook includes a variety of theoretical approaches and provides readers with crucial information, especially on Native American beliefs, that will enhance their understanding and appreciation of this contemporary classic. This collection also includes two interviews with Leslie Marmon Silko in which she explains the importance of oral tradition and storytelling, along with the autobiographical basis of the novel.
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• Introduction: "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket" : an introduction to Sherman Alexie / Jeff Berglund
• Dancing that way, things began to change : the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing / Lisa Tatonetti
• "Survival = anger x imagination" : Sherman Alexie's dark humor / Philip Heldrich
• "An extreme need to tell the truth" : silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" / Elizabeth Archuleta
• Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work / P. Jane Hafen
• This is what it means to say reservation cinema : making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals / James H. Cox
• Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals / Angelica Lawson
• The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics / Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez
• The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows / Nancy J. Peterson
• Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics / Patrice Hollrah
• "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there" : captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer / Meredith James
• Indigenous liaisons : sex/gender variability, Indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world / Stephen F. Evans
• Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" / Margaret O'Shaughnessey
• Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian / Jan Johnson
• The business of writing : Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship / Jeff Berglund.

Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian." Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in print and on the big screen. Editors Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush have assembled twelve leading scholars of American Indian literature to provide new perspectives on a writer with his finger on the pulse of America. Interdisciplinary in their approach to Alexie's work, these essays cover the writer's entire career, and are insightful and accessible to scholars and lay readers alike. This volume is a worthy companion to the work of one of our nations's most recognized contemporary voices. ".
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• Understanding Sherman Alexie
• The business of fancydancing and Old shirts and new skins
• First Indian on the moon and the Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven
• Reservation blues
• Indian killer
• The summer of black widows and One stick song
• The toughest Indian in the world
• Ten little Indians.

In this first book-length examination of Native American poet, novelist, filmmaker, and short story writer Sherman Alexie, Daniel Grassian offers a comprehensive look at a writer immersed in traditional Native American, as well as mainstream American, culture. Grassian takes readers through Alexie's career, from his first collections of poetry, The Business of Fancydancing and Old Shirts and New Skins, through such novels as Reservation Blues and Indian Killer, to the recent short story collection Ten Little Indians. Grassian suggests that Alexie's oeuvre reflects his primary artistic challenge: how to write about Indians in a predominantly televisual country that distorts and complicates the importance and nature of ethnicity itself. Drawing comparisons with such established Native American writers as N. Scott Momaday and James Welch as well as with Generation X peers, Grassian presents Alexie's work as equally informed by Native American culture and generic, mainstream influences. He demonstrates how Alexie utilizes popular culture and connects it to the lives of Native Americans as his art transforms the conventional tools of cultural colonization into a means of Native American empowerment. Grassian explores Alexie's ability to counteract lingering stereo-types of Native Americans, his challenges to the dominant American history, and his suspicion of the New Age movement. The picture of Alexie that emerges from Grassian's text is one of a writer who is fiercely talented, intelligent, witty, and honest, a writer committed to helping readers understand contemporary Native American lives, even if his work sometimes portrays both Native Americans and non-Natives in an unfavorable light.
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• Foreword: Maurice Kenny: not through height / Joseph Bruchac
• Reading the wampum: an introduction to the works of Maurice Kenny / Penelope Kelsey
• You, too, will have this printed word (world) of your own / Eric Gansworth
• The breath and skin of history / James Thomas Stevens
• Dancing back strong our nations: performance as continuance in Maurice Kenny's poetry / Qwo-Li Driskill
• Maurice Kenny: how can any self-respecting Mohawk live in a place like Brooklyn? / Susan Ward
• Tortured skins, bears, and our responsibilities to the natural world / Nicholle Dragone
• Teaching Maurice Kenny's fiction: dislocated characters, narrators, and readers / Alan Steinberg and Karen Gibson
• The spirit of independence: Maurice Kenny's Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant: poems of war / Craig S. Womack
• Painting "word-pictures" in place: Maurice Kenny's emphatic imagination of Tekonwatonti / Molly Brant / Lisa Brooks
• Two-Spirit images in the work of Maurice Kenny / Lisa Tatonetti
• Appendix: Maurice Kenny's Molly Brant: from poetry to play / Alan Steinberg.

Native America can look to few more inventive contemporary writers than Gerald Vizenor. This work discusses his childhood in the Minneapolis of the Depression and World War II to his becoming a professor of Native American Studies at the University of Berkeley.
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