Sherman Alexie

Jeff Berglund is an associate professor of English at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Cannibal Fictions: American Explorations of Colonialism, Race, Gender, and Sexuality.; Jan Roush is an associate professor of English at Utah State University. She is the author of Pulling Leather: Being the Early Recollections of a Cowboy on the Wyoming Range, 1884-1889.

Edited by Jeff Berglund and Jan Roush, eds., Sherman A Collection of Critical Essays Alexie: Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: "Imagination Turns Every Word into a Bottle Rocket": An Introduction to Sherman Alexie Jeff Berglund Dancing That Way, Things Began to Change: The Ghost Dance as Pantribal Metaphor in Sherman Alexie's Writing Lisa Tatonetti "Survival = Anger x Imagination": Sherman Alexie's Dark Humor Philip Heldrich "An Extreme Need to Tell the Truth": Silence and Language in Sherman Alexie's "The Trial of Thomas Builds-the-Fire" Elizabeth Archuleta Rock and Roll, Redskins, and Blues in Sherman Alexie's Work P. Jane Hafen This Is What It Means to Say Reservation Cinema: Making Cinematic Indians in Smoke Signals James H. Cox Native Sensibility and the Significance of Women in Smoke Signals Angelica Lawson The Distinctive Sonority of Sherman Alexie's Indigenous Poetics Susan Berry Brill de RamIrez The Poetics of Tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The Summer of Black Widows Nancy J. Peterson Sherman Alexie's Challenge to the Academy's Teaching of Native American Literature, Non-Native Writers, and Critics Patrice Hollrah "Indians Do Not Live in Cities, They Only Reside There": Captivity and the Urban Wilderness in Indian Killer Meredith James Indigenous Liaisons: Sex/Gender Variability, Indianness, and Intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The Toughest Indian in the World Stephen F. Evans Sherman Alexie's Transformation of "Ten Little Indians" Margaret O'Shaughnessey Healing the Soul Wound in Flight and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Jan Johnson The Business of Writing: Sherman Alexie's Meditations on Authorship Jeff Berglund Contributors Bibliography Index

"The bar is raised. I believe this work will be seen as a role model for literary criticism of Native American fiction, poetry, and film."-Simon Ortiz, poet and professor of English at Arizona State University "An important and timely work.... This volume sets a high standard of scholarship for those committed to grappling with the broader complexities of Alexie's life and work. The collaborative tenor of the project is particularly refreshing, because it invites scholars to converse across disciplines in order to keep pace with an iconic writer whose literary reputation now extends far beyond the Pacific Northwest."-Pacific Northwest Quarterly "An exciting addition to the growing body of scholarship on Sherman Alexie's work. The extensive bibliography of work by and about Alexie that appears at the end of this collection alone makes this book an invaluable resource for scholars and future scholars of Alexie's work."-Studies in American Indian Literatures