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Native American fiction : a user's manual by David Treuer is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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**An entirely new approach to reading, understanding, and enjoying Native American fiction** __This 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.__ Rather 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. __Native American Fiction: A User's Manual__ is 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.

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Author

David Treuer

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781555970789

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Fiction

Rating

3.57 / 5 (59 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14