Critical Insights: Sherman Alexie Table of Contents

Sherman Alexie About This Volume, by Leon Lewis

Career, Life, and Influence On Sherman Alexie: American Man of Letters, by Leon Lewis Biography of Sherman Alexie, by Georgie L. Donovan The Paris Review Perspective, by Barry Harbaugh for The Paris Review

Critical Contexts Navigating the River of the World: Collective Trauma in The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Tammy Wahpeconiah "Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?": Community and History in Sherman Alexie's Writing, by Michael Wilson Articulations of Difference: Minority Existence in White America in Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, by Constance Bracewell Postmodern Magic, Traditional Rage: The Critical Reception of Sherman Alexie's Work, by Tammy Wahpeconiah Half Child/Half Adult: Sherman Alexie's Hybrid Young Adult Fiction, by Mark Vogel The Rhetorical, Performative Poetics of Sherman Alexie: Critical Reflections on Affect, Memory, and Subjectivity, by Cindy M. Spurlock A Rez Kid Gone Urban: Sherman Alexie's Recent Short Fiction, by Richard Sax

Critical Readings Dialectic to Dialogic: Negotiating Bicultural Heritage in Sherman Alexie's Sonnets, by Carrie Etter Sherman Alexie's Indigenous Blues, by Douglas Ford The Exaggeration of Despair in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues, by Gloria Bird Reservation Home Movies: Sherman Alexie's Poetry, by Jennifer Gillan A New Road and a Dead End in Sherman Alexie's Reservation Blues, by Scott Andrews "The res has missed you": The Fragmented Reservation of the Mind in The Business of Fancydancing, by Meredith K. James A Bridge of Difference: Sherman Alexie and the Politics of Mourning, by Laura Arnold Leibman A World of Story-Smoke: A Conversation with Sherman Alexie, by Åse Nygren Indian Killer, by Daniel Grassian Sex and Salmon: Queer Identities in Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World, by Lisa Tatonetti The Trans/historicity of Trauma in Jeannette Armstrong's Slash and Sherman Alexie's Indian Killer, by Nancy Van Styvendale Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel, by Sean Kicummah Teuton Sherman Alexie: Interview, by Margo Rabb

Resources Chronology of Sherman Alexie's Life Works by Sherman Alexie Bibliography About the Editor About The Paris Review Contributors Acknowledgments Index