{"product_id":"native-american-fiction-a-users-manual-9781555974527","title":"Native American Fiction: A User's Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative American Fiction: A User's Manual \u003c\/i\u003eis speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essays--on Sherman Alexie, Forrest Carter, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch--are rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555974527\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.38w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2006 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Treuer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084172427445,"sku":"9781555974527","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_745f2012-3a5a-40db-852d-98332e6fa7b1.jpg?v=1692112000","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/native-american-fiction-a-users-manual-9781555974527","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}