عنوان

Learning to write "Indian" :

0806138521

9780806138527

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Learning to write "Indian" :

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the boarding-school experience and American Indian literature

Amelia V. Katanski.

Norman

University of Oklahoma Press

[2007?], ©2005.

xiii, 274 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits, b & s photographs ; 23 cm

Reprint. Originally published: 2005.

Storytellers and representative Indians in a theory of boarding-school literature --; The man-on-the-band-stand and the represented Indian --; Francis La Flesche and Zitkala-Sa write the middle ground and the educators respond --; Repertoires of representation in boarding-school-era autobiography --; Runaways, rebels, and indolent boys in contemporary re-visions of boarding-school narratives --; Boarding-school repertoire and the American Indian literary tradition.

"Indian boarding schools were the lynchpins of a federally sponsored system of forced assimilation. These schools, located off-reservation, took Native children from their families and tribes for years at a time in an effort to "kill" their tribal cultures, languages, and religions. In Learning to Write "Indian," Amelia V. Katanski examines a range of writings that portray the Indian boarding-school experience - from descriptions of life within the Indian boarding school to accounts of the lasting impact this widespread government policy has had on generations of American Indian people." "Katanski investigates the impact of the Indian boarding-school experience on the American Indian literary tradition through an examination of turn-of-the-century student essays and autobiographies as well as contemporary plays, novels, and poetry."--Jacket.

American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.

Indians of North America -- Education.

Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.

Amelia V. Katanski.

Amelia V Katanski

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