Native American Literature(s) 2M341
Pensum for studieåret
Obligatorisk litteratur
2016 Pensumlitteratur/ Required reading [1]
Total number of pages, approximately 1400.
1. Fiction
Please make sure you have a copy of the following books:
Alexie, S. (1993). The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press (or reprint). 220 pages.
Alexie, S. (2007). The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian. New York: Little, Brown and Company. (Reprint 2009.) 230 pages. [young adult fiction]
Momaday, M. S. (1968/2013). House made of dawn. New York: Harperperennial. 200 pages.
Power, S. (1995). The grass dancer. New York: Penguin/Berkeley. 300 pages.
Power, S. (2014). Sacred wilderness. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press. 270 pages.
Silko, L. M. (1977/2006). Ceremony (deluxe ed.). New York: Penguin. 240 pages.
Silko, L. M. (1969/1981). The man to send rain clouds. In Storyteller. New York, Arcade Publishing. Short story.
2. Films
The following films are required viewing (available from the library/teacher):
Smoke signals. (1998). Directed by Chris Eyre; based on texts by Alexie.
1 / 6 More than bows and arrows. (1978). Camera One Documentary, narrated by M. Scott Momaday.
3. Culture and Theory texts
Lundquist, S. (2004). How to read Native American literatures. In Native American literatures: An introduction (pp. 17-30). New York: Continuum. (23 pages)
Moore, M. (2003). Genocide of the mind: New native American writing. Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. New York: Thunder Mouth Press. 350 pages. [anthology of texts; 100 pages of required reading to be assigned at the start of the semester].
Ross, L. (2009). From the "F" Word to Indigenous/Feminisms. Wicazo Sa Review, 24(2), 39-52. (13 pages) (Gratis tilgjengelig via høgskolens sider.)
West, D. & West, J. M. (1998). Sending cinematic signals: An interview with Sherman Alexie. Cineaste, 23(4), 28-32. (Gratis tilgjengelig via høgskolens sider.)
Vizenor, G. (1990). Trickster discourse. American Indian Quarterly, 14(3), 277-287. (10 pages) (Gratis tilgjengelig via høgskolens sider.)
[1] If the edition listed is not available use an equivalent./Dersom utgaven oppgitt her ikke er tilgjengelig bruk en lignende.
Anbefalt litteratur
2M341 Native American Literature(s):Some Secondary Sources Available from the Library (2016)
These are a few examples; students are also expected to find their own sources in connection with essay writing and the home exam; not all sources will be relevant or appropriate for your topic.
On N. Scott Momaday:
Antell, J. A. (1988). Momaday, Welch, and Silko: Expressing the feminine principle through male alienation. American Indian Quarterly, 12(3), 213-220.
Bartelt, G. (2005). Hegemonic registers in Momaday's House made of dawn. Style, 39(4), 469-478.
2 / 6 Clements, W. M. (1982). Momaday's House made of dawn. Explicator, 41(1), 60-62.
King, T. & Momaday, N. S. (1983). A MELUS interview: N. Scott Momaday: Literature and the native writer. MELUS, 10(4), 66-72.
Momaday, M. S. (1969/1976). The way to Rainy Mountain. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.
Konevich, J. (2002). Momaday’s House made of dawn. Explicator, 64(4), 236-238.
Warriner, G. & Momaday, N. S. (1996). More than bows and arrows. Camera One Productions. Eugene, OR: New Dimension Media, Inc.
Castor, L. (2001). Reading Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: Apocolyptic vision or ecological re-vision?. In Representing gender, ethnicity and nation in word and image (pp. 57-68). Kvinnforsk: University of Tromsø.
Chavkin, A. (Ed.). (2002). Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony: A casebook. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Silko, L. M. (1981/2012). Storyteller. New York: Penguin Books.
Silko, L. M. (1996). Yellow woman and the beauty of the spirit: Essays on native American life today. New York: Touchstone.
Velie, A. R. (1982). Four American Indian literary masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko and Gerald Vizenor. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. [NB this book is somewhat outdated]
On Sherman Alexie:
Alexie, S. (2015). Sherman Alexie speaks out on the best American poetry 2015. Posted byThe Best American PoetrySeptember 7, 2015. Retrieved from http://blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2015/09/like-most-every-poet-i-have-viewed-the-publication-of-each-years-best-american-poetry-with-happiness-i-love-that-poem-je-1.html
Alexie, S. (1998). Smoke Signals: The Screenplay.Introduction and original screenplay by Alexie. New York: Hyperion.
Berglund, J. & Roush, J. (2010). Sherman Alexie: A collection of critical essays.Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press.
Dromnes, T. (2011). Storytelling - in our minds and in the classroom: A narratological and didactic analysis of Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto fistfight in heaven(1993).
3 / 6 Colne:Lap Lambert, 2011. [Book based on her MA thesis.]
Munden, J. (2014). Reader-response in teacher education. InSkriv! Les! 2: Artikler fra den andre nordiske konferansen om skriving, lesing og literacy. Bergen: Fagbokforlaget.
West, D. & West, J. M. (1998). Sending cinematic signals: An interview with Sherman Alexie. Cineaste, 23(4), 28-32.
On Susan Power:
Power, S. (2002).Roof walker.Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions. Fronter: The Chapter ”Museum Indians”, pp. 160-165.
Schweninger, L. (2004). Myth launchings and moon landings: Parallel realities in Susan Power's The grass dancer.Studies in American Indian literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures, 16(3), 47-69.
Shapiro, D. (1994). Spirit in the sky: Talking with Susan Power. People Weekly, 42(6), 21-22.
Walter, R. (1999). Pan-American (re)visions: Magical realism and Amerindian cultures in Susan Power's The grass dancer, Gioconda Belli's La mujer habitada, Linda Hogan's Power , and Mario Varas Llosa's El hablador. American Studies International, 37(3), 63-80.
Wright, N. H. (1995). Visitors from the spirit path: Tribal magic in Susan Power's The grass dancer. Kentucky Philological Review (KPR), 10, 39-43.
On the history of Fort Laramie/ Native conflicts portrayed inThe Grass Dancer. Retrieved from http://www.nps.gov/fola/historyculture/upload/FOLA_history.pdf
On Indigenous Ways of Knowing/Native American Theoretical Perpectives:
Deloria, V. (1988). Custer died for your sins: An Indian manifesto. Norman: University of Oklamhoma Press.
Krupat, A. (2002). Red matters: Native American studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Krupat, A. (2002). Nationalism, indigenism, cosmopolitanism: Three perspectives on native American literatures. In Red matters: Native American studies (pp. 1-23). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Lundquist, S. (2004). Native American literatures: An introduction. New York: Continuum.
Ortiz, S. (2011). Indigenous continuance: Collaboration and syncretism. The American
4 / 6 Indian Quarterly, 35(3), 285-293.
Simpson, A. & Smith, A. (2014). Theorizing native studies. Durham: Duke University Press. FRONTER: INTRODUCTION, PP 1-30
Vizenor, G. (1995). Native American literature: A brief introduction and anthology. Berkeley: Harpercollins.
On Post-Colonialism:
Ashcroft, B. et.al. (2002). The empire writes back: Theory and practice in post-colonial literatures (2
nd
ed.). London and New York: Routledge.
Byrd, J. A. (2011). The transit of empire: Indigenous critiques of colonialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Benning, T. B. (2014). Before and after psychopathology: A Foucault-inspired perspective on Western knowledge concerning the shaman. Fourth World Journal, 13(1), 59-67.
Young, R. (2003). Postcolonialism: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
On Native Americans and Feminism:
Goeman, M. (2008). (Re)mapping indigenous presence on the land in native women's literature. American Quarterly, 60(2), 295-302.
Jaimes-Guerrero, M. A. (2003). 'Patriarchal colonialism' and indigenism: Implications for native feminist spirituality and native womanism. Hypatia, 18(2), 58-69.
Mihesuah, D. A. (2000). A few cautions at the millennium on the merging of feminist studies with American Indian women's studies. Signs, 25(4), 1247-1251.
Ramirez, R. K. (2008). Learning across differences: Native and ethnic studies feminisms. American Quarterly, 60(2), 303-307.
Smith, A. & Kauanui, J. K. (2008). Native feminisms engage American studies. American Quarterly, 60(2), 241-249.
Smith, A. (2008). American studies without America: Native feminisms and the
5 / 6 nation-state. American Quarterly, 60(2), 309-315.
Udel, L. J. (2001). Revision and resistance: The politics of native women's motherwork. Frontiers: A Journal Of Women Studies, 22(2), 43-62.
Waters, A. (2003). Introduction: Special issue on 'Native American women, feminism, and indigenism'. Hypatia, 18(2), ix-xx.
Wyss, H. E. (2007). Native women writing: Reading between the lines. Tulsa Studies In Women's Literature, 26(1), 119-125.
On Postmodernism/Posthumanism:
Butler, C. (2002). Postmodernism: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Connor, S. (Ed.). (2004). The Cambridge companion to postmodernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Geyh, P., Leebron, F. G., & Levy, A. (Eds.). (1998). Postmodern American fiction: A Norton anthology. New York: Norton. (Especially helpful are the “Introduction” and the critical articles gathered in the “Casebook” section). *INTRODUCTION, PP IX-XXX.
Kulchyski, P. (1997). From appropriation to subversion: Aboriginal cultural production in the age of postmodernism. American Indian Quarterly, 21(4), 605-62.
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