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Michigan State University Press Writing Home: Indigenous Narratives of Resistance (American Indian Studies)

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Michael Wilson demonstrates that the use of acceptable Western literary forms by indigenous peoples, while sometimes effective, has frequently distorted essential truths about their cultures. Sermons, for instance, have provided some indigenous authors with a means to criticize colonialism; but ultimately this institutional form, by its very nature, expresses a hierarchical relationship between Christian religions and indigenous beliefs and practices. Similarly, autobiographies are useful vehicles for explaining the cultural practices of a particular tribal group - or personalizing the destructive forces of colonialism - yet the autobiographical form itself suggests an ethos of individualism entirely contrary to a vision of communal identity central to many indigenous groups.Short fiction and novels are often built around conflict. Although indigenous writers have used this thematic approach with considerable artistry to express the clash between indigenous societies and the forces of colonialism, for many indigenous people the idea of conflict as the basis of cultural expression may be antithetical to a relational, perhaps familial, attitude toward the world and other people.This book explores the ways that indigenous writers use ideas and structures from primarily oral traditions to resist, for example, colonial metanarratives that legitimize and even demand the disappearance of indigenous peoples - Manifest Destiny, Social Darwinism, and the inevitable plight of the tragic "mixed blood".To this end, Wilson examines selected works by Mourning Dove ("Humishuma"), Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Erdrich, and Ray Young Bear. In the effort to create a mimetic form of representation that is appropriate to their cultures, these writers, Wilson finds, confront issues of authenticity, identity, and society. Ultimately, Wilson's investigation reminds us of the difficulty and ingenuity required to rescue an authentic written representation of a culture from the distortions caused by the colonialist's "accepted" representational structures. Review Highly anticipated, from one of Native America's most respected scholars and teachers, this book is immensely satisfying. Wilson calls forward the masterworks of Indigenous oral literature, thinks through them with an Indigenous consciousness, and in doing so brings the reader into contact with the heart of Indigenous America's movement of cultural and political resurgence. His readings of the strongest examples of the Indigenous "literature of combat" and his critiques of lesser works are set against his own commitment to fight the forces that are still colonizing our existences and moving us towards oblivion. This is a deeply thought and carefully written work, and it shows Michael Wilson to be at the front ranks of scholars of Native literature ... unique, compelling, and powerful. -- Dr. Taiaiake Alfred About the Author Michael D. Wilson is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Brand: Michigan State University Press
Format: paperback
ASIN: 0870138189
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 01 January 2008
Listed Since: 04 January 2008

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