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The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture - Softcover

Krupat, Arnold

 
9780803277861: The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803277865 ISBN 13: 9780803277861
Verlag: Bison Books, 1998

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<div><i>The Turn to the Native</i> is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural &#8220;essentialism,&#8221; the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural &#8220;sovereignty&#8221; and &#8220;property,&#8221; and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, &#8220;A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians,&#8221; presents the author&#8217;s effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western &#8220;critical&#8221; ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.</div>

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

<div>Arnold Krupat, a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College, is the author of <i>Ethnocriticism: Ethnography, History, Literature</i>.</div>

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The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism, " the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property, " and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, "A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians, " presents the author's effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western "critical" ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.

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Verlag
Bison Books
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803277865
ISBN 13 
9780803277861
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Anzahl der Seiten
168
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