Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction: Imagining an American Indian Center 1
6. Part I. Red Land
7. 1. Embodying Lands: Somatic Place in N. Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn 43
8. 2. Placing the Ancestors: Historical Identity in James Welch’s Winter in the Blood 79
9. Part II. Red Power
10. 3. Learning to Feel: Tribal Experience in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony 119
11. 4. Hearing the Callout: American Indian Political Criticism 157
12. Conclusion: Building Cultural Knowledge in the Contemporary Native Novel 197
13. Notes 235
14. Bibliography 257
15. Index 281