{"product_id":"red-land-red-power-grounding-knowledge-in-the-american-indian-novel-paperback","title":"Red Land, Red Power: Grounding Knowledge in the American Indian Novel - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSean Kicummah Teuton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn lucid narrative prose, Sean Kicummah Teuton studies the stirring literature of \"Red Power,\" an era of Native American organizing that began in 1969 and expanded into the 1970s. Teuton challenges the claim that Red Power thinking relied on romantic longings for a pure Indigenous past and culture. He shows instead that the movement engaged historical memory and oral tradition to produce more enabling knowledge of American Indian lives and possibilities. Looking to the era's moments and literature, he develops an alternative, \"tribal realist\" critical perspective to allow for more nuanced analyses of Native writing. In this approach, \"knowledge\" is not the unattainable product of disinterested observation. Rather it is the achievement of communally mediated, self-reflexive work openly engaged with the world, and as such it is revisable. For this tribal realist position, Teuton enlarges the concepts of Indigenous identity and tribal experience as intertwined sources of insight into a shared world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile engaging a wide spectrum of Native American writing, Teuton focuses on three of the most canonized and, he contends, most misread novels of the era--N. Scott Momaday's \u003ci\u003eHouse Made of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e (1968), James Welch's \u003ci\u003eWinter in the Blood \u003c\/i\u003e(1974), and Leslie Marmon Silko's \u003ci\u003eCeremony\u003c\/i\u003e (1977). Through his readings, he demonstrates the utility of tribal realism as an interpretive framework to explain social transformations in Indian Country during the Red Power era and today. Such transformations, Teuton maintains, were forged through a process of political awakening that grew from Indians' rethought experience with tribal lands and oral traditions, the body and imprisonment, in literature and in life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean Kicummah Teuton offers a powerful vision of American Indian literary studies and its dialogue with contemporary literary criticism. He understands how to connect theoretical discussion to the practical politics of Indian culture and literature. Every scholar in the field will want to read this book.--Robert Dale Parker, author of \"The Invention of Native American Literature\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSean Kicummah Teuton is Associate Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.19 x 6.11 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42722457714751,"sku":"9780822342410","price":67.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/3da5e80a215d1e3a640800eb9a0e816f.webp?v=1765095829","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/red-land-red-power-grounding-knowledge-in-the-american-indian-novel-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}