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This book looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.
Jon Stratton looks at the post-Holocaust experience with emphasis on aspects of its impact on popular culture.
Even as Stephen Graham Jones generates a dizzying range of brilliant fiction, his work has remained strikingly absent from scholarly conversations about Native and western American literature, owing to his unapologetic embrace of popular genres such as horror and science fiction. Steeped in dense narrative references, literary and historical allusions, and experimental postmodern stylings, his fiction informs a broad array of literary and popular conversations. The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones offers the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre. The diverse methodologies that inform these essays - from Native American critical theory to poststructuralism and gothic noirism - illuminate the exciting complexity of Jones's narrative worlds while positioning his works within broader conversations in literary studies and popular culture. Jones challenges at every turn the notions of what constitutes Native American literature and what it means to be a Native American writer. Contributing editor Billy J. Stratton foregrounds this heavily contested question of identity and its ongoing relevance to readers and critics.
Out of Eden contributes towards conversations about interpreting scripture. Rather than adopting traditional views (creation and 'fall' or growth), this study integrates literary-critical theories and feminist scholarship to read the Genesis narrative in relation to concerns of contemporary communities. The question of how we might engage the interpretative process and the rhetorical power of texts as we live our lives 'out of Eden' is addressed. Stratton argues that the interpretration of Genesis 2-3 matters, that there are consequences for the actions we take on the basis of our interpretations, and that we should enter the interpretative process only with care.>
The captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, "The Soveraignty and
Goodness of God," published in 1682, is often considered the first
"best seller" to be published in North America. Since then, it has
long been read as a first-person account of the trials of Indian
captivity. After an attack on the Puritan town of Lancaster,
Massachusetts, in February 1676, Rowlandson was held prisoner for
more than eleven weeks before eventually being ransomed. The
account of her experiences, published six years later, soon took
its place as an exemplar of the captivity narrative genre and a
popular focal point of scholarly attention in the three hundred
years since.
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