Reserve Reading for Week 15

Read one or more of the following three "Introductions" to the field of Native American Lit (required):

• Louis Owens, from "Other Destinies, Other Plots: An Introduction to Indian Novels"
• Paula Gunn Allen, from the Introduction to Spider Woman's Granddaughters
• Arnold Krupat, from the Introduction to The Voice In the Margin
  
  
• Vine Deloria, Jr., "Indians Today, the Real and the Unreal" (recommended)
  

Also required:

• Elvira Pulitano, "Native Theory and Criticism: 1. United States" (Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism - HSU users only)
• Simon Ortiz, "Towards a National Indian Literature: Cultural Authenticity in Nationalism" (MELUS 8.2 [Summer 1981, Special Issue on "Ethnic Literature and Cultural Nationalism"] - HSU users only)
• Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior, Preface to American Indian Literary Nationalism (U of New Mexico P, 2006)

Selected Internet Resources

David Treuer

• Treuer's personal website
• Treuer's faculty web page (U of Minnesota)
• Profile by Dinitia Smith in the New York Times
• Interview with mnartists.org
• Feature on "Talking Volumes" (Minnesota Public Radio)
• "My Muse Wears Butt-less Chaps": Treuer speaks about his next novel in Esquire (30 October 2007)
• "A language too beautiful to lose" (Los Angeles Times 3 February 2008). A different take on "translation" and the "quest for beauty": when a language dies, "we will lose beauty -- the beauty of the particular, the beauty of the past and the intricacies of a language tailored for our space in the world."

Reviews

• Graywolf Press
• Diagram 6.6
• Washington Post
• California Literary Review

Miscellany

• American Indian Quarterly 30:1/2 (2006), "Indigenous Languages and Indigenous Literatures," edited by Treuer
• "Campaspe" and "Apelles" (Wikipedia)
• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, "Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles" (Getty Museum) (audio commentary)
• Daphnis and Chloe (Wikipedia)
• Roland Barthes and The Pleasure of the Text (excerpt)
• Old Crow Wing, Minnesota