This is one of a series of brief anthologies designed for ethnic, multicultural and American literature courses. The series aims to introduce undergraduates to the rich but often neglected literary contributions of established and newer ethnic writers to American literature. Each text is organized chronlogically by genre and represents a wide range of literature. An introduction provides an historical overview and a celebration of the diversity within each ethnic group. It also addresses the general literary concerns students are likely to encounter in their readings. A seperate thematic table of contents provides the tutor with more flexibility in the classroom. All four anthologies include three bibliographies which suggest novels for further reading; aid students in their research and recommend films that would enhance the studies. Ishmael Reed, the general editor, is founder of the American Book Awards.

Native-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Vizenor, Gerald Robert

History & Criticism

Longman Pub. Group

Gerald Vizenor gives life to traditional tribal stories by presenting them in a new perspective: he challenges the idyllic perception of rural life, offering in its stead an unusual vision of survival in the cities--the sanctuaries for humans and animals. It is a tribal vision, a quest for liberation from forces that would deny the full realization of human possibilities. In this modern world his characters insist upon survival through an imaginative affirmation of the self. In Dead Voices Vizenor, using tales drawn from traditional tribal stories, illuminates the centuries of conflict between American Indians and Europeans, or "wordies." Bagese, a tribal woman transformed into a bear, has discovered a new urban world, and in a cycle of tales she describes this world from the perspective of animals--fleas, squirrels, mantis, crows, beavers, and finally Trickster, Vizenor's central and unifying figure. The stories reveal unpleasant aspects of the dominant culture and American Indian culture such as the fur trade, the educational system, tribal gambling, reservation life, and in each the animals, who represent crossbloods, connect with their tribal traditions, often in comic fashion. As in his other fiction, Vizenor upsets our ideas of what fiction should be. His plot is fantastic; his story line is a roller-coaster ride requiring that we accept the idea of transformation, a key element in all his work. Unlike other Indian novelists, who use the novel as a means of cultural recovery, Vizenor finds the crossblood a cause for celebration.

Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Possessed by the demonic windigoo spirit, a group of Native American students commits various atrocities while seeking to resurrect Indian remains housed in a museum, while the "Round Dancers"--another group--challenge them on their own turf.

Chancers: A Novel (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

United States

These narratives compare earthdivers in myths who brought dirt up from the watery earth to form land, with present-day earthdivers, mixed bloods, who dive into urban areas connecting dreams to the earth

Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent

Univ of Minnesota Pr

The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage (Emergent Literatures)

In the wild outback of the White Earth Chippewa reservation, a family of tricksters--liberation figures from Native American literature--rebels against convention, establishes ingenious business enterprises, and tells trickster stories far and wide

Tells the story of a group of tribal pilgrims who journey south toward freedom after the government invades their reservation to claim their sacred trees for fuel

Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles

Discusses the restrictions of reservation life experienced by the Chippewa Indians

Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports

History

Americas

Discusses the restrictions of reservation life experienced by the Chippewa Indians

Matsushima: Haiku

Poetry

Nodin Pr

Griever de Hocus, a trickster born on an American reservation, accepts a teaching assignment in Communist China, but refuses to obey its socialist conventions

Griever: An American Monkey, King in China (Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Series)

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Native-American Literature: A Brief Introduction and Anthology

Dead Voices: Natural Agonies in the New World (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

Chancers: A Novel (American Indian Literature & Critical Studies Series)

Earthdivers: Tribal Narratives on Mixed Descent

The Trickster of Liberty: Tribal Heirs to a Wild Baronage (Emergent Literatures)

Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles

Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports

Crossbloods: Bone Courts, Bingo, and Other Reports

Matsushima: Haiku

Griever: An American Monkey, King in China (Illinois State University/Fiction Collective Series)