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- catalog abstract "Mediation is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his important new theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich - Ruppert analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage, guiding Native and non-Native readers alike to a different and expanded understanding of each other's worlds. While Native American writers may criticize white society, revealing its past and present injustices, their emphasis, Ruppert argues, is on healing, survival, and continuance. Their fiction aims to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness. To that end they articulate the perspectives and values of competing world views. In particular they create characters who manifest what Ruppert calls "multiple identities"--Determined by both Native and non-Native perceptions of the self. These writers use a variety of narrative techniques deriving from different cultural traditions. They might incorporate Native oral storytelling techniques, adapting them to written form, or they might reconstruct Native mythologies, investing them with new meaning and relevance by applying them to contemporary situations. As novel-writers, they also include features more characteristic of western European writing - such as the omniscient narrator or the detective-story plot.".
- catalog contributor b8242141.
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-169) and index.".
- catalog description "Mediation -- Multiple narratives and story realities -- Intricate patterns of the universe: House made of dawn -- That other distance: Winter in the blood -- No boundaries, only transitions: Ceremony -- Mythic verism: Bearheart: The heirship chronicles -- What did you see?: Wind from an enemy sky -- Celebrating culture: Love medicine.".
- catalog description "Mediation is the term James Ruppert uses to describe his important new theory of reading Native American fiction. Focusing on novels of six major contemporary American writers - N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich - Ruppert analyzes the ways in which these writers draw upon their bicultural heritage, guiding Native and non-Native readers alike to a different and expanded understanding of each other's worlds. While Native American writers may criticize white society, revealing its past and present injustices, their emphasis, Ruppert argues, is on healing, survival, and continuance. Their fiction aims to produce cross-cultural understanding rather than divisiveness. To that end they articulate the perspectives and values of competing world views. In particular they create characters who manifest what Ruppert calls "multiple identities"--Determined by both Native and non-Native perceptions of the self.".
- catalog description "These writers use a variety of narrative techniques deriving from different cultural traditions. They might incorporate Native oral storytelling techniques, adapting them to written form, or they might reconstruct Native mythologies, investing them with new meaning and relevance by applying them to contemporary situations. As novel-writers, they also include features more characteristic of western European writing - such as the omniscient narrator or the detective-story plot.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 174 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "080612749X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "American Indian literature and critical studies series ; v. 15".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Norman : University of Oklahoma Press,".
- catalog subject "813/.5409897 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Indian authors History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Indians in literature.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America Intellectual life.".
- catalog subject "Mediation in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS374.I49 R87 1995".
- catalog tableOfContents "Mediation -- Multiple narratives and story realities -- Intricate patterns of the universe: House made of dawn -- That other distance: Winter in the blood -- No boundaries, only transitions: Ceremony -- Mythic verism: Bearheart: The heirship chronicles -- What did you see?: Wind from an enemy sky -- Celebrating culture: Love medicine.".
- catalog title "Mediation in contemporary Native American fiction / by James Ruppert.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".