{"product_id":"native-american-fiction-a-users-manual-9781555974527","title":"Native American Fiction: A User's Manual","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eRather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eNative American Fiction: A User's Manual \u003c\/i\u003eis speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essays--on Sherman Alexie, Forrest Carter, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch--are rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDAVID TREUER \u003c\/b\u003eis Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota. He is the award-winning author of two previous novels, \u003ci\u003eLittle \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Hiawatha\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches literature and creative writing at the University\u003cbr\u003eof Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492883927314,"sku":"9781555974527","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_97c6e035-ba44-40e3-b6bb-92bbec52f30e.jpg?v=1730612670","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/native-american-fiction-a-users-manual-9781555974527","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}