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  • When You Sing It Now, Just Like New

    First Nations Poetics, Voices, and Representations

    When You Sing It Now, Just Like New is a collection of essays about stories: about hearing, sharing, and recording them, and sometimes even becoming characters in them. These essays, which contextualize stories within anthropology, flow from Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington’s decades of work with the Athapaskan-speaking Dane-zaa people, who live in Canada's Peace River area.The essays in part ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Indigenous Conflict Management Strategies

    Global Perspectives

    We know that since the end of the Cold War, conflicts in non-Western countries have been frequent, frequently violent, largely intra-state, and protracted. But what do we know about conflict management and resolution strategies in these societies? Have the dominant Western approaches been transplantable, suitable, effective, durable, and sustainable? Would conflicts in non-Western societies be ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

    Series series Indigenous Studies
    Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the political, creative, and intellectual efforts of Indigenous peoples today.In considering the connections between literature and lived experience, this book contemplates four key questions at the ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Storywork

    Educating the Heart, Mind, Body, and Spirit

    Indigenous oral narratives are an important source for, and component of, Coast Salish knowledge systems. Stories are not only to be recounted and passed down; they are also intended as tools for teaching.Jo-ann Archibald worked closely with Elders and storytellers, who shared both traditional and personal life-experience stories, in order to develop ways of bringing storytelling into educational ... Read more

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  • The Sacred Hoop

    Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions

    Almost thirty years after its initial publication, Paula Gunn Allen's celebrated study of women's roles in Native American culture, history, and traditions continues to influence writers and scholars in Native American studies, women's studies, queer studies, religion and spirituality, and beyondThis groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays investigates and celebrates Native American ... Read more

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  • Blade Runner

    by Matt Hills ...
    Series series Cultographies
    More than just a box office flop that resurrected itself in the midnight movie circuit, Blade Runner (1982) achieved extraordinary cult status through video, laserdisc, and a five-disc DVD collector's set. Blade Runner has become a network of variant texts and fan speculations-a franchise created around just one film. Some have dubbed the movie "classroom cult" for its participation in academic ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Poetics in Canada

    Edited by Neal McLeod ...
    Series Book 13 - Indigenous Studies
    Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Coming To Light

    Contemporary Translations of the Native Literatures of North America

    by Brian Swann ...
    A richly diverse anthology of Native American literatures draws on the work of more than two hundred tribes across the United States and Canada and provides information on the historical and cultural contexts of the stories, songs, prayers, and orations. ... Read more

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  • Sherman Alexie

    A Collection of Critical Essays

    Edited by Jeff Berglund, Jan Roush ...
    Sherman Alexie is, by many accounts, the most widely read American Indian writer in the United States and likely in the world. A literary polymath, Alexie's nineteen published books span a variety of genres and include his most recent National Book Award-winning The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.Now, for the first time, a volume of critical essays is devoted to Alexie's work both in ... Read more

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  • Disturbing the Universe

    Power and Repression in Adolescent Literature

    The Young Adult novel is ordinarily characterized as a coming-of-age story, in which the narrative revolves around the individual growth and maturation of a character, but Roberta Trites expands this notion by chronicling the dynamics of power and repression that weave their way through YA books. Characters in these novels must learn to negotiate the levels of power that exist in the myriad social ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Reservation Reelism

    Redfacing, Visual Sovereignty, and Representations of Native Americans in Film

    In this deeply engaging account Michelle H. Raheja offers the first book-length study of the Indigenous actors, directors, and spectators who helped shape Hollywood’s representation of Indigenous peoples. Since the era of silent films, Hollywood movies and visual culture generally have provided the primary representational field on which Indigenous images have been displayed to non-Native ... Read more

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  • The Philosophy of the Western

    Series series The Philosophy of Popular Culture
    Essays about how stories of the Old West reflect—and affect—our beliefs and values.The solitude of the lone rider, the loyalty of his horse, and the unspoken code of the West—for many, Western movies embody America and its values, though the view of the country's history they present isn't always accurate. In recent years, scholars had declared the genre dead, but a steady resurgence of western ... Read more

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