0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Browse All Departments
  • All Departments
Price
  • R100 - R250 (1)
  • R250 - R500 (6)
  • R500 - R1,000 (2)
  • -
Status
Brand

Showing 1 - 9 of 9 matches in All Departments

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present (Paperback): David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee - Native America from 1890 to the Present (Paperback)
David Treuer 1
R565 R476 Discovery Miles 4 760 Save R89 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation) - Life in Native America: David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation) - Life in Native America
David Treuer; Adapted by Sheila Keenan
R230 Discovery Miles 2 300 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Native American Fiction - A User's Manual (Paperback): David Treuer Native American Fiction - A User's Manual (Paperback)
David Treuer
R486 R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Rez Life (Paperback): David Treuer Rez Life (Paperback)
David Treuer
R468 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R77 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Celebrated novelist David Treuer has gained a reputation for writing fiction that expands the horizons of Native American literature. In Rez Life, his first full-length work of nonfiction, Treuer brings a novelist's storytelling skill and an eye for detail to a complex and subtle examination of Native American reservation life, past and present. With authoritative research and reportage, Treuer illuminates misunderstood contemporary issues like sovereignty, treaty rights, and natural-resource conservation. He traces the convoluted waves of public policy that have deracinated, disenfranchised, and exploited Native Americans, exposing the tension and conflict that has marked the historical relationship between the United States government and the Native American population. Through the eyes of students, teachers, government administrators, lawyers, and tribal court judges, he shows how casinos, tribal government, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs have transformed the landscape of Native American life. A member of the Ojibwe of northern Minnesota, Treuer grew up on the Leech Lake Reservation, but was educated in mainstream America. Treuer traverses the boundaries of American and Indian identity as he explores crime and poverty, casinos and wealth, and the preservation of his native language and culture. Rez Life is a strikingly original work of history and reportage, a must read for anyone interested in the Native American story.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation) - Life in Native America (Hardcover): David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Young Readers Adaptation) - Life in Native America (Hardcover)
David Treuer; Adapted by Sheila Keenan
bundle available
R545 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R96 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Translation of Dr. Apelles (Paperback): David Treuer The Translation of Dr. Apelles (Paperback)
David Treuer
R433 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young Indian lovers in an unspoiled and snowy woodland, David Treuer weaves together two love stories. Enthralling and suspenseful, "The Translation of Dr. Apelles "dares to redefine the Native American novel.

The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee - Indian America from 1890 to the Present (Hardcover): David Treuer The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee - Indian America from 1890 to the Present (Hardcover)
David Treuer
R793 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R143 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Paperback): David Treuer The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee (Paperback)
David Treuer
R480 R395 Discovery Miles 3 950 Save R85 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD CHOSEN BY BARACK OBAMA AS ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2019 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past' New York Times Book Review, front page The received idea of Native American history has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U.S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear - and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence- the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.

The Hiawatha (Paperback): David Treuer The Hiawatha (Paperback)
David Treuer
R615 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R106 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis. Her younger son Lester finds romance on the soon-to-be-demolished train, The Hiawatha, while his older brother Simon takes a dangerous job scaling skyscrapers. Their fates collide, and result in a tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.

An elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is a powerful novel that confirms David Treuer's status as a young writer of rare talent.

Free Delivery
Pinterest Twitter Facebook Google+
You may like...
Closer To Love - How To Attract The…
Vex King Paperback R360 R309 Discovery Miles 3 090
Return Of The Dream Canteen
Red Hot Chili Peppers CD R185 R122 Discovery Miles 1 220
Cable Guys Controller and Smartphone…
R404 Discovery Miles 4 040
Kill Joy
Holly Jackson Paperback R259 R66 Discovery Miles 660
Peptine Pro Equine Hydrolysed Collagen…
 (2)
R359 R279 Discovery Miles 2 790
Pet Mall Mattress Style Pet Bed…
R2,339 Discovery Miles 23 390
Calvin Klein Escape Eau De Parfum Spray…
R2,077 R992 Discovery Miles 9 920
Fast & Furious: 8-Film Collection
Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, … Blu-ray disc R649 R399 Discovery Miles 3 990
Croxley A4 PP Printed File Dividers…
R23 R21 Discovery Miles 210
Conforming Bandage
R3 Discovery Miles 30

 

Partners