Noticed initially as a Native American author, Sherman Alexie has since achieved a reputation as a significant figure in the American literary landscape. The essays in this set discuss many different aspects of Alexie's works.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
About This Volume.
Career, Life, and Influence.
1: On Sherman Alexie: American Man of Letters.
2: Biography of Sherman Alexie.
3: The Paris Review Perspective.
Critical Contexts.
4: Navigating the River of the World: Collective Trauma in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
5: “Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?” Community and History in Sherman Alexie's Writing.
6: Articulations of Difference: Minority Existence in White America in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye.
7: Postmodern Magic, Traditional Rage: The Critical Reception of Sherman Alexie's Work.
8: Half Child/Half Adult: Sherman Alexie's Hybrid Young Adult Fiction.
9: The Rhetorical, Performative Poetics of Sherman Alexie: Critical Reflections on Affect, Memory, and Subjectivity.
10: A Rez Kid Gone Urban: Sherman Alexie's Recent Short Fiction.
Critical Readings.
11: Dialectic to Dialogic: Negotiating Bicultural Heritage in Sherman Alexie's Sonnets.
12: Sherman Alexie's Indigenous Blues.
13: The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues.
14: Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry.
15: A New Road and a Dead End in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues.
16: “The res has Missed You”: The Fragmented Reservation of the Mind in The Business of Fancydancing.
17: A Bridge of Difference: Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning.
18: A World of Story-Smoke: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie.
19: Indian Killer.
20: Sex and Salmon: Queer Identities in Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World.
21: The Trans/historicity of Trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer.
22: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel.
