Recently added articles from Studies in American Indian Literatures:
FROM THE EDITORS
Jul 01, 2008; Justice, Daniel Heath; Cox, James H ... The creative and scholarly contributions to this issue exemplify the strong health of contemporary Indigenous literary studies and the energetic conversations between diverse communities, texts, eras, ideas, and methods. The two critical essays take up canonical texts in the field-Linda Hogan's ...
A Narrative of Motives: Solicitation and Confession in Linda Hogan's Power
Jul 01, 2008; Manning, Pascale Mccullough ... I confess. This is no simple statement. It is a declaration, an illocutionary act, and a technique for the production of truth.1 It is an ecstatic utterance, outside the usual stasis of statement, residing within what Michel Foucault calls a "ritual of discourse" (61). Confession is not made to ...
"You can't run away nowadays": Redefining Modernity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded
Jul 01, 2008; Kent, Alicia A ... When D'Arcy McNickle (1904-77) began work on his first novel in the 1920$, he hoped he would become part of the circle of modernist writers.1 Inclusion in the American literary canon and incorporation into the greater American culture were not (and still are not) the goals for many Native ...
Removals
Jul 01, 2008; Andrews, Scott ... Let facts show how the benevolent design has been prosecuted. -Memorial of Protest of the Cherokee Nation June 22, 1836 I. VIETNAM each soldier was assigned a family to "round up" but Uncle Billy's was the last out of the village and, fearing ...
A Conversation with David Treuer
Jul 01, 2008; Kennedy, Virginia ... David Treuer is the author of three novels, Little, The Hiawatha, and most recently The Translation of Dr. Apelles. He has also authored a provocative book of critical essays entitled Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. Treuer won a Washington Post Critics Choice Award in 2006, and in ...
Columbus Day 2092
Jul 01, 2008; Andrews, Scott ... the letters flew on Columbus Day little messengers landing on porches and desks to tell the Europeans they must leave must imitate the salmon and return to their homes the Europeans had never heard of the company on the ...
Dialectic
Jul 01, 2008; Andrews, Scott ... I. FATHER Our daughter first felt the heat of the sun through your skin. She dreamt in the gentle tides of your breathing, your blood. You were her first home. Your name-"Mom"-will be among the last words she speaks in her ...
Reasoning Together: An Introduction
Jul 01, 2008; Womack, Craig S ... In June 2002 we asked tribally affiliated scholars who taught Native literature to "describe an ethical Native literary criticism." The conversation had actually begun the previous year, and we had tried to identify every Native person who taught the literature. Inevitably we missed a few ...
The Delicate Dance of Reasoning and Togetherness
Jul 01, 2008; Fagan, Kristina ... Reasoning Together: The Native Critics Collective, a new collection of essays by Native literary critics, is one of the most important theoretical works to emerge out of the study of Aboriginal literature. I do not know whether the collection's title deliberately recalls a dialogue between David ...
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual/The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story
Jul 01, 2008; Kalb, John D ... David Treuer. Native American Fiction: A User's Manual. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2006. 212 pp. _____. The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf, 2006. 315 pp. In 1995 Leech Lake Ojibwe writer David Treuer burst upon the literary scene with the ...
Billboard in the Clouds
Jul 01, 2008; Kennedy, Pat ... Suzanne S. Rancourt. Billboard in the Clouds. Willimantic, CT: Curbstone, 2004. 66 pp. Suzanne S. Rancourt's collection of poems Billboard in the Clouds is a valuable addition to the growing body of poetry produced by Native writers of the Northeast-in particular, those with French ...
The Past, Present, and Possible Futures of American Indian Literary Studies
Jul 01, 2008; Cox, James H ... SAIL has now celebrated its thirtieth anniversary publishing scholars and creative writers in the field of American Indian literary studies. The celebration and reflection in which many of us participated at the 2007 MLA annual convention in Chicago was part of a recent, much broader discussion ...
A Scar Upon Our Voice
Jul 01, 2008; McGlennen, Molly ... Robin Coffee. A Scar Upon Our Voice. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 2005.112 pp. I have to admit that I am very conflicted writing this review. Perhaps this is because of the numerous contradictory issues that Native writers seem to be confronted with on a regular basis. The politics of ...
Sky Dancers/Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood/Beaver Steals Fire, a Salish Coyote Story
Jul 01, 2008; Slapin, Beverly ... Connie Ann Kirk (Seneca). Illustrations by Christy Hale. Sky Dancers. New York: Lee and Low, 2004. N pag. EdNah New Rider Weber (Pawnee). Photographs by Richela Renkun. Rattlesnake Mesa: Stories from a Native American Childhood. New York: Lee and Low, 2004.132 pp. Confederated ...
Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast
Jul 01, 2008; Shepherd, Jeffrey P ... Paige Raibmon. Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast. Durham, NC: Duke UP, 2005. 295 pp. Paige Raibmon has written a path-breaking book that investigates one of the most controversial topics in Native studies and American Indian ...