Red Land, Red Power
Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2008
312 pages
978-0-8223-8904-0 (ISBN)
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A new interpretation of the literature of the Red Power movement that reconceives the role of identity in the political empowerment of Native Americans.
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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.
Content
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
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
