Nothing 5Ut Thetruth
NOTHING 5UT THETRUTH AN ANTHOLOGY or NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE John Purdy Western Washington University James Ruppert University of Alaska, Fairbanks SUB Gfittingen 7 214 804 453 2002 A 7912 Prentice Hall Upper Saddle River, New Jersey 07458 CONTENTS Selections by Author x Preface xiv NONPICTION 5 Introduction 1 Susan Perez Castillo, Postmodernism, Native American Literature and the Real: The Silko-Erdrich Controversy 15 Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, (Crow Creek Dakota) The American Indian Fiction Writers: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, the Third World, and First Nation Sovereignty 23 Vine Deloria, Jr., (Sioux) Indian Humor 39 Charles Eastman Ohiyesa, (Sioux) The Ghost Dance War 54 Paula Gunn Allen, (Laguna Pueblo, Sioux) The Sacred Hoop: A Contemporary Perspective 62 N. Scott Momaday, (Kiowa) The Man Made of Words 82 David L. Moore, Decolonializing Criticism: Reading Dialectics and Dialogics in Native American Literatures 94 Simon J. Ortiz, (Acoma Pueblo) Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism 120 Carter Revard, (Osage) History, Myth, and Identity Among Osages and Other Peoples 126 Greg Sarris, (Miwok-Pomo) The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories 141 Leslie Marmon Silko, (Laguna Pueblo) Language and Literature from a Pueblo Perspective 159 An Old-Time Indian Attack Conducted in Two Parts: Part One— Imitation "Indian" Poems/Part Two—Gary Snyder's Turtle Island 166 Brian Swann, Introduction: Only the Beginning 172 vi Contents TICTION l?0 Sherman Alexie, (Spokane, Coeur d'Alene) The Approximate
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