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Title: The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture by Arnold Krupat ISBN: 0-8032-7786-5 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Summary: Non-Indian Critics and Readers Will Want to Read This
Comment: Arnold Krupat's 'The Turn to the Native' is a unique bit of literary criticism. One of the few studies of American Indian (or 'Indian,' to use Sherman Alexie's preferred term) literature, aside from Ruoff's 'American Indian Literatures' and Graulich's 'Yellow Woman,' featuring Leslie Marmon Silko, Krupat's book examines major themes of Indian literature as well as the role of the non-Indian when reading Indian books.
'The Turn to the Native,' while it serves as a nice overview of major themes, especially post-Colonialism and the ideologies through which Westerners always tend to view Indian literature, concerns itself largely with Gerald Vizenor and his 'Heirs of Columbus' (two out of the four 'criticism' chapters are devoted to Vizenor, and a full one of them is devoted to 'Heirs.') Krupat identifies some of the Sartrian influences (and refutations thereof) in 'Heirs,' while placing the book squarely in the larger context of postcolonial literature and literary theory as a whole.
But the main theme of the book is IDENTITY, which he fully explores in the last (and byfar the longest) chapter, 'A Nice Jewish Boy Among the Indians.' While obstinately about the role of the non-Indian reader in general (and the non-Indian critic in particular) in exploring and reading Indian literature, it really serves as a model for later criticisms of Indian work (and, I'll admit, it helped me in my own journey into this subject far more than 'traditional' criticism ever did). Told in the form of a story (what else?), it tells Krupat's story as a Jewish-American immigrant and the offspring of Holocaust survivors, who share quite a bit in common with the Indians who, in their own way, are survivors of a different kind of Holocaust. From that basis, Krupat manages to make several statements about the role of non-Indian critics (shaky at best) and non-Indian readers (sorry, you just won't 'get' all of it). As a non-Indian, it was refreshing to read, and it helped me immensely in organizing my thoughts about Indian literature and my place as a 'twinkie' in it.
Essential reading for anyone doing scholarly work in Native American or Indian literature. Makes an excellent companion piece to 'The Heirs of Columbus.'
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Title: Red Matters: Native American Studies (Rethinking the Americas) by Arnold Krupat ISBN: 0812218035 Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Here First : Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers by Brian Swann, Arnold Krupat ISBN: 0375751386 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 13 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Natives and Academics: Researching and Writing About American Indians by Devon A. Mihesuah ISBN: 0803282435 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie ISBN: 0060976241 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 September, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism by Craig S. Womack ISBN: 0816630232 Publisher: Univ of Minnesota Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: 20 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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