Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. CHAPTER 1. Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature and Literary Criticism 1
5. CHAPTER 2. Nothing to Do:John Joseph Mathews's Sundown and Restless Young Indian Men 19
6. CHAPTER 3. M'ho Shot the Sheriff Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D'Arcy McNickle's The Surrounded 51
7. CHAPTER 4. Text, Lines, and Videotape: Reinventing Oral Stories as Written Poems 80
8. CHAPTER 5. The Existential Surfboard and the Dream of Balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything": The Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear 101
9. CHAPTER 6. The Reinvention of Restless Young Men: Storytelling and Poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Thomas King's Medicine River 128
10. CHAPTER 7. Material Choices: American Fictions and the Post-canon 168
11. APPENDIX. Legs, Sex, Orgies, Speed, and Alcohol, After Strange Gods: John Joseph Mathews's Lost Generation Letter 188
12. Notes 195
13. Works Cited 215
14. Index 239