An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction
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May 14, 2007
Biiwide
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Throughout this book Treuer asserts that his goal for this book is to break down the stereotypical assumptions of what "native american" literature "is" or "is not". I would love to read that book when it is written, but this is not that book.
Most of Treuer's critiques are nothing more thinly veiled personal attacks aimed at "exposing" other "native american" authors' lack of "authentic" "native american" knowledg More...
Most of Treuer's critiques are nothing more thinly veiled personal attacks aimed at "exposing" other "native american" authors' lack of "authentic" "native american" knowledg More...
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Jan 26, 2011
Mely
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Reassesses Native American fiction through its uses of Western literary techniques rather than as emblem of Native American culture(s). Extremely good at close readings of texts, some truth to the position of NA fiction as artifact, weakened by arguments pushed farther than texts (usually reviews & interviews, not books) warrant (suspect Bloom-worthy misprisions) and also by failure to define key terms in argument, such as "culture" and "literature" (as opposed to "Nat
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May 24, 2009
Steven
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Wow! What to say about this book? It's brilliant and maddening at the same time. First of all, Treuer is an excellent writer, offering a critical style that is rhythmic and engaging. He pillories Sherman Alexie ruthlessly, which if nothing else provides for exciting reading (I like Alexie, if that makes a difference).
However, I wish Treuer were a bit more generous as a reader. His argument that Native American literature is a phony category needs more work, and he makes sweeping More...
However, I wish Treuer were a bit more generous as a reader. His argument that Native American literature is a phony category needs more work, and he makes sweeping More...
Mar 23, 2008
david-baptiste
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I've just re-re-read nearly all David Treur's Native American Fiction, in which the author, an Ojibwe of the Leech Lake MN rez
who writes novels and teaches in Minneapolis, asserts that there is no such thing as "Native American Fiction," that it in itself is a fiction which needs to be read as literature and not as "Native American." Treur's thesis is not a willfully paradoxical one, but based in the Indian's historical dilemna in trying to communicate with non-Indians More...
who writes novels and teaches in Minneapolis, asserts that there is no such thing as "Native American Fiction," that it in itself is a fiction which needs to be read as literature and not as "Native American." Treur's thesis is not a willfully paradoxical one, but based in the Indian's historical dilemna in trying to communicate with non-Indians More...
Dec 12, 2010
Alan
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This books made some very interesting points. However, it often bogged down into such mind numbing detail about what seemed trivial facts, that I found it a very difficult read. I ended up skimming through much of it.
Sep 22, 2011
really enjoyed this but want to come back to it after i've read Silko's Ceremony and Welch's Fool's Crow.
Dec 17, 2009
Davissimo
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I'm still contending with this book. I'll have something definitive to say by the end of the fall semester.
Mar 31, 2008
N
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Really interesting lit crit book of Native American fiction, by a Leech Lake Ojibwe writer.
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