Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Foreword by Robert Warrior
Preface by Debra K. S. Barker
Introduction / Debra K. S. Barker
Part I. Nurturing Culture Through Ancestor Words and Stories
1. Spiraling Out from Shiprock: The Traveling Songs of Luci Tapahonso / Susan Scarberry-García
2. Not Placed in Their Literature: Jeannette C. Armstrong’s Writings of Community Process / Jane Haladay
3. Acts of Attention: Communal Aesthetics in Kimberly Blaeser’s Poetry / Molly McGlennen
4. “Not All Indians Dance”: Counterhistorical Aesthetics in the Work of Joseph M. Marshall III / Debra K. S. Barker
Part II. New Directions in Tribal Literatures
5. A Cartography of Healing: Mapping the Poetry and Prose of Janice Gould / Dean Rader
6. Tribalography in Motion: LeAnne Howe / Kenneth M. Roemer and Kirstin L. Squint
7. Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, Haida Manga, and the Political Possibilities of Comics Art / Jeremy M. Carnes
8. Complexity and Media in Heid E. Erdrich’s Verse / Denise Low
9. Deborah•A. Miranda: The Erotics of Lesbian Native American Literature / Gabriel S. Estrada
Part III. Art in the Quotidian
10. Allison Adelle Hedge Coke: Constructing Southern Working-Class Indigeneity / Ellen L. Arnold
11. In and Out of the Crazywoods: Cheryl Savageau’s Abenaki Grounding of a Bipolar Diagnosis / Siobhan Senier
12. “Busy Living it All”: The Ironic Aesthetic of nila northSun / Stephanie Fitzgerald
13. “Telling the Truths of Our Presence”: Meskwaki Sovereignty in the Autobiographical Narratives of Ray Young Bear / Laura J. Beard
Part IV. Affirming Indigenous Literary Sovereignty
14. Draw the Circle Wider: Returning to the Work of Robert J. Conley / Daniel Heath Justice
15. Demon Theory for Beginners, or The Intertextual Badlands of Stephen Graham Jones / Eric Gary Anderson
16. David Treuer: The Power in the Contrarian Voice / Virginia Kennedy
17. “Directional Memory”: Esther G. Belin’s Poetic Geographies / Jeff Berglund
18. Writing from the Guest House: The Poetics of Sherwin Bitsui / Esther G. Belin
19. “Between Ink and Letter When Words Are Silent”: The Navajo Poetics of Orlando White / Sherwin Bitsui
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index