"I Tell You Now" is an anthology of autobiographical accounts, by eighteen notable Native writers of different ages, tribes, and areas. This second edition features a new introduction by the editors and updated biographical sketches for each writer. Brian Swann is a professor of English at Cooper Union in New York City. He recently edited "Voices ...
Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red-Native American culture, history, and literature-should matter to Americans more than it has to date. Although there exists a growing body of criticism demonstrating the importance of Native ...
This collection of autobiographical narratives by Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present day. The 30 narratives included cover a range of tribes and cultural areas, over a span of more than 200 years.
"Raises some very important questions regarding identity and its relation to the process of literature and the task of criticism. No one is more familiar with the field and the literature of this subject than Krupat. The work is eminently readable, intelligent without being stuffy, thoughtful without being confusing." - W. S. Penn, author of "All ...
Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in a compelling collection of personal and family histories illuminated by verse and song, story and narrative, all fed by the strong oral tradition of the indigenous peoples of this country. EVERYTHING MATTERS reveals a broad and complex Native American experience.
A rich diversity of attitude, experience, and literary style can be seen in "I Tell You Now," For these Native American writers, being caught between two cultures has sharpened the struggle for self-identity and a sense of self-worth. They describe their bittersweet memories of childhood and family life, their fight against prejudice and poverty, ...
Reflecting a variety of disciplines, this volume brings together more than twenty Native American and non-Native American critics working in the United States and abroad to explore the oral and textual expressions of Native Americans past and present.
For over a century the discourses of ethnography, history, and literature have sought to represent the American Indian in America. Krupat considers all these discourses and the ways in which American Indians have attempted to "write back," producing an oppositional--or at least a parallel--discourse.
A rich diversity of attitude, experience, and literary style can be seen in "I Tell You Now," For these Native American writers, being caught between two cultures has sharpened the struggle for self-identity and a sense of self-worth. They describe their bittersweet memories of childhood and family life, their fight against prejudice and poverty, ...
In this dynamic collection of essays, Arnold Krupat, one of the leading critics of American Indian writing, storytelling, and film, offers insightful and provocative analyses of representations by and about Native peoples, past and present. He considers the relations between tricksters in traditional and contemporary stories, the ways in which ...
This is the story of a professor who, with his life falling apart, seeks to overcome his inaction and lack of conviction by following Thoreau's lifestyle and ideals. He buys a parcel of wooded land in upstate New York, envisioning a life there similar to Thoreau's on Walden Pond. Accompanied by his friends Hope, Jules, Anna, Ariel, and Hassan, he ...
In its consideration of American Indian literature as a rich and exciting body of work, "The Voice in the Margin" invites us to broaden our notion of what a truly inclusive American literature might be, and of how it might be placed in relation to an international - a "cosmopolitan" - literary canon. The book comes at a time when the most ...
For Those Who Come After seems indeed to be quite a specialized book, a study of texts concerning a marginalized people, texts themselves marginalized (at least until recently) by their exclusion from the canon of American literature traditionally taught in the United States.
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