Stories Through Theories/ Theories Through Stories: North American Indian Writing, Storytelling, and Critique

Stories Through Theories/Theories Through Stories explores the uneasy relations--often contentious, sometimes complicit--between American Indian Literature and literary theory. Some of the essays in this book open American Indian narratives to theoretical critique based on "western depth models." Others work from a very different direction, finding critique in storytelling and processes of narrative production, thereby exposing dimensions of literary theory that grow from the indigenous ground of Native stories themselves.
This collection of essays--sometimes playfully but always insistently--changes our readings of Native works and challenges our roles as intellectual guides until we step deeper into the ambiguous territories where writer, listener, reader, and critic intersect.
Taken together, these essays provide compelling evidence for looking at primary Native cultures, authors, and histories as enrichments of Native literature.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Published: 11/24/2009
ISBN: 9780870138416
Pages: 327
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 9.00h x 7.00w x 0.86d

Review Citations: Chronicle of Higher Education 01/22/2010 pg. 18
Choice 05/01/2010
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2010 pg. 276