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The noted Nez Perce fiction writer and critic W. S. Penn turns his wry and penetrating gaze on the state of modern Native life and literature and considers how modern scholarship has affected the ways Natives and others see themselves and their world. The result is a uniquely frank, witty, and unsettling critique of contemporary theory and its ability to come to terms with the real lives and literatures of Natives in North America. Key to this critique is the troubling issue of what properly constitutes a traditional "Indian" identity and an "Indian" literature within Native communities and in the academy. In confronting this issue, Penn exposes some of the sillier uses of the serious language of diversity as well as the impact of identity politics on Native professors. And yet, Penn argues, the storytelling traditions so central to Native communities remain very much alive today, hidden in the corners of the literary canon. W. S. Penn is the director of the Creative Writing Program and winner of the Distinguished Faculty Award at Michigan State University. His many books include the North American Indian Prose Award-winner All My Sins Are Relatives (Nebraska 1995); the American Book Award-winner Killing Time with Strangers; and This Is the World.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0803287828
ISBN13:9780803287822
Release Date:December 2004
Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.69 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 9.0"
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