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Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez,

Contemporary American Indian Literatures & the Oral Tradition by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez,
Because American Indian literatures are largely informed by their respective oral storytelling traditions, they may be more difficult to understand or interpret than the more text-based literatures with which most readers are familiar. In this insightful new book, Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez addresses the limitations of contemporary criticism and theory in opening up the worlds of story within American Indian literatures, proposing instead a conversive approach for reading and understanding these works. In order to fully understand American Indian literatures, Brill de Ramirez explains that the reader must become a listener-reader, an active participant in the written stories. To demonstrate this point, she explores literary works both by established Native writers such as Sherman Alexie, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Luci Tapahonso and by less-well-known writers such as Anna Lee Walters, Della Frank, Lee Maracle, and Louis Owens. Through her literary engagements with many poems, novels, and short stories, she demonstrates a new way to read and understand the diverse body of American Indian literatures. Brill de Ramirez's conversive approach interweaves two interconnected processes: co-creating the stories by participating in them as listener-readers and recognizing orally informed elements in the stories such as verbal minimalism and episodic narrative structures. Because this methodology is rooted in American Indian oral storytelling traditions, Native voices from these literary works are able to more directly inform the scholarly process than is the case in more textually based critical strategies. Through this innovative approach, Brill de Ramirez shows thatliterature is not a static text but an interactive and potentially transforming conversation between listener-readers, storyteller-writers, and the story characters as well.
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The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century by Stacey Michele Olster, X
The Trash Phenomenon: Contemporary Literature, Popular Culture, and the Making of the American Century by Stacey Michele Olster, X
The Trash Phenomenon looks at how writers of the late twentieth century not only have integrated the events, artifacts, and theories of popular culture into their works but also have used those works as windows into popular culture's role in the process of nation building. Taking her cue from Donald Barthelme's 1967 portrayal of popular culture as "trash" in Snow White and Don DeLillo's 1997 description of it in Underworld as a subversive "people's history" Stacey Olster explores the ways in which American popular culture can be recycled in literature so as to change the nationalistic imperative behind its inception. The Trash Phenomenon begins with a look at the mass media's role in the United States' emergence as the twentieth century's dominant power. To this end, Olster discusses the works of three authors that collectively span the century bounded by the Spanish-American War (1898) and the Persian Gulf War (1991): Gore Vidal's "American Chronicle" series, John Updike's Rabbit tetralogy, and Larry Beinhart's American Hero. Olster then turns her attention to three non-American writers whose own cultures have felt the imperial sway of American popular culture: hierarchical class structure in Dennis Potter's England, Peronism in Manuel Puig's Argentina, and Nihonjinron consensus in Haruki Murakami's Japan. Finally, Olster returns to American literature to look at the contemporary media spectacle and the representative figure as potential sources of national consolidation after November 1963. Olster first focuses on autobiographical, historical, and fictional accounts of three spectacles in which the formulae of popular culture are shown to bypass differences of class, gender, andrace: the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Scarsdale Diet Doctor murder, and the O.J. Simpson trial. She concludes with some thoughts about the nature of American consolidation after 9/11.
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Contemporary French literature - Contemporary French literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French from (roughly) the 1990's to today. The goal of this article is to survey contemporary trends in French literature and to showcase talented writers of the last few decades.

Contemporary literature - Contemporary literature is literature, in any form or medium, produced in the present day (post-1960 is an approximate cutoff point). In the context of classical literature, it can be defined as literature produced pre-1960.

African American contemporary issues - African American contemporary issues have been of concern to many African Americans and other ethnic groups in the United States. Many African Americans have been discriminated and left impoverished in American society, but many African Americans have also risen to the middle and upper classes recently.

African American literature - African American literature is literature written by, about, and sometimes specifically for African Americans. The genre began during the 18th and 19th centuries with writers such as poet Phillis Wheatley and orator Frederick Douglass, reached an early high point with the Harlem Renaissance, and continues today with authors such as Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou being ranked among the top writers in the United States.



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