Writing home : indigenous narratives of resistance /
Michael D. Wilson.
- East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, c2008.
- xxiv, 188 p. ; 23 cm.
- American Indian studies series .
- American Indian studies series (East Lansing, Mich.) .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
Introduction. Indigenous resistance fiction -- Assimilation or appropriation? the idea of the center in N. Scott Momaday's Way to rainy mountain and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- "Authenticity" and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony -- The ethical use of indigenous traditions in contemporary literature -- Writing a friendship dance : orality in Mourning Dove's Cogewea -- Bearheart : Gerald Vizenor's compassionate novel -- Muted traditions and dialogic affirmation in Louise Erdrich's Love medicine -- Perpetual metamorphosis : transformational journeys in Ray Young Bear's Black eagle child.