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Shapes of Native nonfiction : collected essays by contemporary writers /

"For many the phrase "Native nonfiction" inspires thoughts of the past, of timeless oral history transcriptions and dry 19th century autobiographies. In Shapes of Native Nonfiction, Washuta and Warburton explode this perspective by showcasing 22 contemporary Native writers and their p...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Warburton, Theresa (Editor), Washuta, Elissa (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2019]
Subjects:
2000-2099
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Indian authors.
American literature > 21st century.
Creative nonfiction, American.
Indians of North America > Literary collections.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: exquisite vessels / Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton
  • Technique. Contemporary creative writing and ancient oral tradition / Ernestine Hayes
  • Letter to a just-starting-out Indian writer - and maybe to myself / Stephen Graham Jones
  • Funny, you don't look like (my preconceived ideas of) an essay / Chip Livingston
  • Nizhoní dóó 'a'ani' dóó até'él'í dóó ayoo'o'oni (beauty & memory & abuse & love) / Bojan Louis
  • Fairy tales, trauma, writing into dissociation / Sasha LaPointe
  • Coiling. Tuolumne / Deborah A. Miranda
  • I know I'll go / Terese Marie Mailhot
  • Little mountain woman / Terese Marie Mailhot
  • Fear to forget & fear to forgive: or an attempt at writing a travel essay / Bojan Louis
  • Fertility rites / Tiffany Midge
  • AND SO I ANAL DOUCHE WHILE KESHA'S "PRAYING" PLAYS FROM MY IPHONE ON REPEAT / Billy-Ray Belcourt
  • The Great Elk / Ruby Hansen Murray
  • Plaiting. Real romantic / Eden Robinson
  • The trickster surfs the floods / Natanya Ann Pulley
  • The way of wounds / Natanya Ann Pulley
  • To the man who gave me cancer / Adrienne Keene
  • Self-portrait with parts missing and/or smeared / Michael Wasson
  • Critical poly 100s / Kim Tallbear
  • Twining. Pain scale treaties / Laura Da'
  • Caribou people / Siku Allooloo
  • Part one: redeeming the English language (acquisition) series / Tiffany Midge
  • Apocalypse logic / Elissa Washuta
  • Women in the Fracklands: on water, land, bodies, and Standing Rock / Toni Jensen
  • Goodbye Once upon a time / Byron F. Aspaas
  • I am chopping ivory or bone / Joan Naviyuk Kane
  • Blood running / Sasha LaPointe
  • A mind spread out on the ground / Alicia Elliott.