Toward a Native American Critical Theory

Toward a Native American Critical Theory
Author: Elvira Pulitano
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2003-01-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803237377

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"Unlike Western interpretations of Native American literatures and cultures in which external critical methodologies are imposed on Native texts, ultimately silencing the primary voices of the texts themselves, Pulitano's work examines critical material generated from within the Native contexts to propose a different approach to Native literature. Pulitano argues that the distinctiveness of Native American critical theory can be found in its aggressive blending and reimagining of oral tradition and Native epistemologies on the written page - a powerful, complex mediation that can stand on its own yet effectively subsume and transform non-Native critical theoretical strategies."--BOOK JACKET.