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Red Land, Red Power – Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel: New Americanists

Autor Sean Kicummah Teuton
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 iun 2008
In lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of "Red Power," an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Looking to the era's moments and literature, he develops an alternative, "tribal realist" critical perspective to allow for more nuanced analyses of Native writing. In this approach, "knowledge" is not the unattainable product of disinterested observation. Rather it is the achievement of communally mediated, self-reflexive work openly engaged with the world, and as such it is revisable. For this tribal realist position, Teuton enlarges the concepts of Indigenous identity and tribal experience as intertwined sources of insight into a shared world. While engaging a wide spectrum of Native American writing, Teuton focuses on three of the most canonized and, he contends, most misread novels of the era--N. Scott Momaday's "House Made of Dawn" (1968), James Welch's "Winter in the Blood "(1974), and Leslie Marmon Silko's "Ceremony" (1977). Through his readings, he demonstrates the utility of tribal realism as an interpretive framework to explain social transformations in Indian Country during the Red Power era and today. Such transformations, Teuton maintains, were forged through a process of political awakening that grew from Indians' rethought experience with tribal lands and oral traditions, the body and imprisonment, in literature and in life.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822342410
ISBN-10: 0822342413
Pagini: 312
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: MD – Duke University Press
Seria New Americanists


Cuprins

Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center 1
Part I. Red Land
1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn 43
2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch's Winter in the Blood 79
Part II. Red Power
3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in Leslie Marmon Silko's ` 119
4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism 157
Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel 197
Notes 235
Bibliography 257
Index 281

Recenzii

“Red Land, Red Power is a terrific book. Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a critique and reconstruction of current theoretical discussions in literary studies about identity and experience as they affect the reception and production of Native literature. He argues for a ‘tribal realist’ approach as the critical framework that allows for a sophisticated, nuanced, and empowering analysis of American Indian literature.” Paula Moya, author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles“Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book.”—Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature“Teuton challenges the theoretical positions of scholars who have dominated the landscape of literary criticism and analysis of Native Indian writing, and in doing so he debunks the stoic noble savage image and contends that scholarly perceptions of Indians have not changed much...a powerful text that debunks old myths and creates a framework for seeing the world for what it is. Red Land, Red Power is a must-read.” Lee Maracle, University of Toronto
"Red Land, Red Power is a terrific book. Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a critique and reconstruction of current theoretical discussions in literary studies about identity and experience as they affect the reception and production of Native literature. He argues for a 'tribal realist' approach as the critical framework that allows for a sophisticated, nuanced, and empowering analysis of American Indian literature." Paula Moya, author of Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles "Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book."--Robert Dale Parker, author of The Invention of Native American Literature "Teuton challenges the theoretical positions of scholars who have dominated the landscape of literary criticism and analysis of Native Indian writing, and in doing so he debunks the stoic noble savage image and contends that scholarly perceptions of Indians have not changed much...a powerful text that debunks old myths and creates a framework for seeing the world for what it is. Red Land, Red Power is a must-read." Lee Maracle, University of Toronto

Notă biografică

Sean Kicummah Teuton is Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

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"Sean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book."--Robert Dale Parker, author of "The Invention of Native American Literature"

Descriere

Study of the novels that came out of the Native American Red Power movement in the 1960s and 1970s