...Laura Arnold Leibman Duke University Press 2005 Laura A Bridge of Difference: Arnold Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning Leibman In Sherman Alexie’s fourth poetry collection, The Summer of Black Widows (1996), the ‘‘abandoned uranium mine’’ on the...

... of Sherman Alexie, Charles Eastman, and Mourn- ing Dove to oral histories and translation theory; LaLonde, on the other hand, focuses exclusively on the novels of mixed-blood author Louis Owens. But their...

... globalization, and transnational print cultures. This collection makes an important contribution to American literary and cultural studies oriented around the Pacific. Sherman Alexie: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush. Salt Lake City: Univ. of Utah Press. 2010. xxxix, 302...

... variety of Native American texts, from the narratives of Sherman Alexie, Charles Eastman, and Mourn- ing Dove to oral histories and translation theory; LaLonde, on the other hand, focuses exclusively on the novels...

... add to his canon such black feminist aesthetic experimenters as Alexis De Veaux, Ntozake Shange, and Sherley Anne Williams. While traditions of black radicalism seem to be independent strands, these enlightening analyses lead inevitably to what scholar James Edward Smethurst calls the “occluded...

... Winnemucca, D’Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Sherman Alexie—Moore invites us to consider several key issues for Native Americans: sovereignty, community, identity, and authenticity, with a final chapter on Native use of humor as a strategic entry into often dark and difficult conversations...

...Alexis Pauline Gumbs Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination . By Mizelle Richard M. Jr. Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2014 . xii, 209 pp. Cloth , $75.00 ; paper, $25.00 . Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making...

... relationship to Indianness in Call It Sleep, and puts Bernard Malamud and Michael Chabon in conversation with Sherman Alexie. This study does not equate Jewish Americans with Native Americans but rather demonstrates that the communities tell similar narratives about homeland, genocide, and...

... dominance, expansion, and exceptionalism. Focusing on the redefinition of myth, the book interprets Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections (2003); Toni Morrison’s Beloved (1987), Jazz (1992), and Paradise (1998); Luis Alberto Urrea’s Into the Beautiful North (2009); and Sherman Alexie’s Reservation...

... lineage of hybridity from Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman to what Marilyn Chin termed the “multicultural renaissance” of the 1980s and 1990s. Parmar argues that poets such as Chin, Adrienne Rich, and Sherman Alexie represent the culmination of the revolutionary poetic tradition that she calls “the...

... and Generation X. By Daniel Grassian. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. 2003. 201 pp. Paper, $35.00. Has literature lost its power as an instrument of cultural critique? Drawing on the work of writers David Foster Wallace, Neal Stephenson, Douglas Coup- land, Sherman Alexie, William Vollmann, Michele...

... Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question...

... Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question...

... poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question of why there...

... postmodern humanism in a wide range of texts and media, including Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn...

... Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question...

... Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question...

... poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question of why there...

... “postmodern humanism” that creates opportunities for ethical reflection and the revival of community. The book finds such threads of postmodern humanism in a wide range of texts and media, including Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s...

... Monologues, the poetry and prose of Sherman Alexie, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia, and The Beatles’ White Album. Faith and Fiction: Christian Literature in America Today. By Anita Gandolfo. Westport, Conn.: Praeger. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $44.95. Gandolfo’s study asks the deceptively simple question...