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[Krupat shows] that American Indian Literature is a field where all the intellectual issues, social values and questions . . . can be brought to bear."—Carter Revard, Washington University "Krupat . . . [brings] a remarkable range of scholarship to bear on his subjects. He knows the current literary criticism, the Indian literature, and the anthropology."—H. David Brumble, University of Pittsburgh

[Krupat shows] that American Indian Literature is a field where all the intellectual issues, social values and questions . . . can be brought to bear."—Carter Revard, Washington University "Krupat . . . [brings] a remarkable range of scholarship to bear on his subjects. He knows the current literary criticism, the Indian literature, and the anthropology."—H. David Brumble, University of Pittsburgh

Arnold Krupat's book is immensely exciting, provocative, and introduces to the study of American literature(s) a bold new critical Cultural studies perspective that undermines radically the conceptual segregation and institutional isolation of Native American literary and cultural texts. . . . His dialectically rigorous work will help set the parameters for any future discussion of Native American texts and their relation to questions of canon...

Arnold Krupat's book is immensely exciting, provocative, and introduces to the study of American literature(s) a bold new critical Cultural studies perspective that undermines radically the conceptual segregation and institutional isolation of Native American literary and cultural texts. . . . His dialectically rigorous work will help set the parameters for any future discussion of Native American texts and their relation to questions of canon...

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After a theoretical and historical introduction to American Indian boarding-school literature, Changed Forever, Volume II examines the autobiographical writings of a number of Native Americans who attended the federal Indian boarding schools. Considering a wide range of tribal writers, some of them well known-like Charles Eastman, Luther Standing Bear, and Zitkala-Sa-but most of them little known-like Walter Littlemoon, Adam Fortunate Eagle, R...

The second volume of the first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the nineteenth and the first decades of the twentieth centuries. Arnold Krupat examines Hopi, Navajo, and Apache boarding-school narratives that detail these students' experiences. The book's analyses are attentive to the topics (topoi) and places (loc...

The first in-depth study of a range of literature written by Native Americans who attended government-run boarding schools.

Arnold Krupat, one of the most original and respected critics working in Native American studies today, offers a clear and compelling set of reasons why red--Native American culture, history, and literature--should matter to Americans more than it has to

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What-to-Do? a novel is a work made up of a number of mostly inter-linked chapters, all of which bear, in one way or another, on the question, What are we to do with our lives? One character who reappears at different points in the book is a middle-aged rural widow whose son has mentioned to her that no one ever seems to have written out - spelled out - all the numbers from one to one million. Alone and with time on her hands, she sets out to d...

Arnold Krupat is a professor emeritus of global studies and literature at Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author of numerous books, including "That the People Might Live": Loss and Renewal in Native American Elegy, All That Remains: Varieties of Indigenous Expression (Nebraska, 2009), and The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture (Nebraska, 1996).

In this dynamic collection of essays, Arnold Krupat, one of the leading critics of American Indian writing, storytelling, and film, offers insightful and provocative analyses of representations by and about Native peoples, past and present. He considers the relations between tricksters in traditional and contemporary stories, the ways in which Native peoples were depicted in mainstream American literature in the mid-nineteenth century, and how...

Twenty-seven Native American writers describe their lives and art in this compelling collection.When the editors Arnold Krupat and Brian Swann asked twenty-seven Native American writers to describe their lives in relation to their art, they received an extraordinary array of responses -- twenty-seven pieces of autobiographical remembrance united only by a common set of Native American heritages.The writers, artists, poets, and academics repres...

The Turn to the Native is a long-awaited assessment of Native American studies by one of its leading practitioners. Learned and passionate, the book is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. It is also a polemical intervention by a critic with abiding loyalties to Native American culture and to the Western intellectual heritage that has often been seen as hostile to Native culture...