Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0816523495 ISBN 13: 9780816523498

Verlag: University of Arizona Press, 2003

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-The well-written essays . . . offer a variety of critical and theoretical approaches from scholars and scholar/poets, with a unique intertexuality arising from some contributors analyzing the poetic works of other writers in the volume. . . . This volume shifts the focus in formal studies of American Indian poetics to the people as they are now and their hopes for healing in the future.- --Great Plains Quarterly "The well-written essays . . . offer a variety of critical and theoretical approaches from scholars and scholar/poets, with a unique intertexuality arising from some contributors analyzing the poetic works of other writers in the volume. . . . This volume shifts the focus in formal studies of American Indian poetics to the people as they are now and their hopes for healing in the future." --Great Plains Quarterly

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Although American Indian poetry is widely read and discussed, few resources have been available that focus on it critically. This book is the first collection of essays on the genre, bringing poetry out from under the shadow of fiction in the study of Native American literature. Speak to Me Words is a stimulating blend of classic articles and original pieces that reflect the energy of modern American Indian literary studies. Highlighting various aspects of poetry written by American Indians since the 1960s, it is a wide-ranging collection that balances the insights of Natives and non-Natives, men and women, old and new voices. Included here are such landmark articles as ""Answering the Deer"" by Paula Gunn Allen, ""Herbs of Healing"" by Carter Revard, and ""Song, Poetry and Language Expression and Perception"" by Simon Ortiz all pieces that have shaped how we think about Native poetry. Among the contributions appearing for the first time are Elaine Jahner writing on Paula Gunn Allen's use of formal structures; Robert Nelson addressing pan-Indian tropes of emergence, survival, return, and renewal; and Janet McAdams focusing on Carter Revard's ""angled mirrors."" Although many Native writers may disregard distinctions between genres, together these writings help readers see the difference between American Indian poetry and other forms of Native literature. These essays are as broad, encompassing, and provocative as Native poetry itself, branching off from and weaving back into one another. In showing how American Indian poetry redefines our social order and articulates how Indian communities think about themselves, these writers establish a new foundation for the study and enjoyment of this vital art.

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• Verlag: University of Arizona Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0816523495
• ISBN 13: 9780816523498
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 294
• Herausgeber: Rader Dean, Gould Janice