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A Bridge of Difference: Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning

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Laura Arnold Leibman
American Literature (2005) 77 (3): 541–561.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-77-3-541
Published: 01 September 2005
...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...
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Black Feminist Geohaptics and the Broken Earth

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Shouhei Tanaka
American Literature (2023) 95 (3): 569–596.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10679265
Published: 01 September 2023
...Shouhei Tanaka Abstract This article examines how literary imaginaries of the haptic in Black speculative fiction attend to the racial politics of the Anthropocene and the centrality of sensory praxis to ecological thought. Reading Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s M Archive and N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth...
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Red Matters: Native American Studies; Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns: The Novels of Louis Owens

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Frederick Luis Aldama
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 663–665.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-663
Published: 01 September 2003
... a 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...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 885–888.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437342
Published: 01 December 2011
... 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 pp. Paper, $24.95. One of today’s foremost American writers, Alexie...
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Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich

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James H. Cox
American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 716–718.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520264
Published: 01 December 2021
..., hybridity, and interracial romance in Indigenous YA fiction. The chapters on Armstrong and on Alexie and Bruchac contain more compelling arguments than the next two chapters on Smith and Power and, finally, Zobel and Taylor. In the last chapter, Suhr-Sytsma attempts to rehabilitate hybridity as a productive...
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Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation; Rereading the Harlem Renaissance: Race, Class,and Gender in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset, Zora Neale Hurston, and Dorothy West

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Linda Wagner-Martin
American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 661–663.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-3-661
Published: 01 September 2003
... literature and cultural production cen- trally in American studies. Krupat addresses a variety of Native American texts, from the narratives of Sherman Alexie, Charles Eastman, and Mourn- ing Dove to oral histories...
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Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility Circulating Queerness: Before the Gay and Lesbian Novel Melodrama: An Aesthetics of Impossibility

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Benjamin Bateman
American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 898–901.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7917452
Published: 01 December 2019
...Benjamin Bateman Dead Letters Sent: Queer Literary Transmission . By Kevin Ohi . Minneapolis : Univ. of Minnesota Press . 2015 . 326 pp. Cloth, $96.50 ; paper, $27.50 ; e-book available. Old Futures: Speculative Fiction and Queer Possibility . By Alexis Lothian...
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Red Scare Racism and Cold War Black Radicalism Radical Aesthetics and Modern Black Nationalism

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Mary Helen Washington
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 901–903.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257976
Published: 01 December 2017
... nationalism. Avilez might add to his canon such black feminist aesthetic experimenters as Alexis De Veaux, Ntozake Shange, and Sherley Anne Williams. Because we take for granted notions about black nationalism that were the most publicly expressed during the Black Arts/black power era, Avilez focuses...
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In Search of First Contact: The Vikings of Vinland, the Peoples of the Dawnland, and the Anglo-American Anxiety of Discovery That Dream Shall Have a Name: Native Americans Rewriting America

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Hilary E. Wyss
American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 603–605.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3149393
Published: 01 September 2015
... 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...
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Writing and Democracy in the Early United States

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Shirley Samuels
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 571–584.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616199
Published: 01 September 2020
... . Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press . Tocqueville Alexis de . ( 1835 ) 2004 . Democracy in America . Edited by Zunz Oliver . Translated by Goldhammer Arthur . New York : Library of America . Whitman Walt . 1865 . Drum-Taps . New York . Whitman Walt . 1871...
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Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 415–418.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533434
Published: 01 June 2016
...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...
View articletitled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s View PDF for article titled, Backwater Blues: The Mississippi Flood of 1927 in the African American Imagination Ain’t Got No Home: America’s Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left Writing through Jane Crow: Race and Gender Politics in African American Literature The Other Blacklist: The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s
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Repugnant Aboriginality: LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker and Indigenous Representation in the Age of Multiculturalism

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Monika Barbara Siebert
American Literature (2011) 83 (1): 93–119.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-064
Published: 01 March 2011
... enigma of Howe’s novel: How do we determine what really happened, in the presence of contradictory explanations? Instead of an ongoing question regarding the identity of the mur- derer, as in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer (1996), in Shell Shaker we Shell Shaker...
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Hawthorne’s Distillery: Time and Temperance in “The Birth-Mark” And Other Tales

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Clayton Marsh
American Literature (2016) 88 (4): 723–753.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3711102
Published: 01 December 2016
... Tocqueville Alexis . 2007 . Democracy in America . Edited by Kramnick Isaac . New York : Norton . First published 1841. Dickens Charles . 1957 . American Notes and Pictures from Italy . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . First published 1842. Dorsey Bruce . 2002 . Reforming...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2010) 82 (3): 663–670.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-039
Published: 01 September 2010
..., including works by Sherman Alexie, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louis Owens, and Thomas King. By investigating how these authors represent diverse experiences of sovereignty, this study demon- strates how indigenous people of the United States and Canada imagine a community that tethers...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 882–890.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208672
Published: 01 December 2018
... 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 American Strain.” Throughout, the book asserts that the US poetic canon embodies...
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Making Americans in the New York Public Library: Fantasy and Realities

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Barbara Hochman
American Literature (2025) 97 (1): 121–153.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11597539
Published: 01 March 2025
... . “ The Danger of a Single Story .” TED Talks. http://bit.ly/U5t0Hy . Alexie Sherman . 2007 . The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian . New York : Little Brown . America’s Making Inc . 1921 . The Book of America’s Making Exposition . City and State Departments of Education , New...
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Transcending Boundaries: The Network Concept in Nineteenth-Century American Philosophy and Literature

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Regina Schober
American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 493–521.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717389
Published: 01 September 2014
.... of Chicago Press . Thoreau Henry David . ( 1854 ) 1962 . Walden and Other Writings , edited by Krutch Joseph Wood . New York : Bantam Classics . Tocqueville Alexis de . ( 1835/40 ) 2007 . Democracy in America , edited by Kramnick Isaac . New York : Norton . Watts...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 863–870.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-059
Published: 01 December 2010
... 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 nationhood. Secrecy...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 187–195.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326530
Published: 01 March 2018
..., 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 Blues (1995). Toward Diversity and Emancipation: (Re-)Narrating Space...
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Brief Mention

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American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 413–421.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-413
Published: 01 June 2004
... 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 Serros, and Dave Eggers, Grassian...
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