The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture

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ISBN: 9780803277861
Dewey: 810.9897
LCC Number: PS153.I53
Author: Arnold Krupat
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Pages: 149
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The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural “essentialism, ” the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural “sovereignty” and “property, ” and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and postmodernism. Krupat comments on the recent work of numerous Native writers. The final chapter, “A Nice Jewish Boy among the Indians, ” presents the author’s effort to balance his Jewish and working-class heritage, his adherence to Western “critical” ideals, and his ongoing loyalty to the values of Native cultures.

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The Turn to the Native is a long-awaited assessment of Native American studies by one of its leading practitioners. Learned and passionate, the book is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. It is also a polemical intervention by a critic with abiding loyalties to Native American culture and to the Western intellectual heritage that has often been seen as hostile to Native culture and society.

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Weight 0.54 lbs
Dimensions 8.94 × 6.01 × 0.4 in
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