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Shapes of Native Nonfiction

Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers

by Elissa Washuta
Theresa Warburton
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Just as a basket's purpose determines its materials, weave, and shape, so too is the purpose of the essay related to its material, weave, and shape. Editors Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton ground this anthology of essays by Native writers in the formal art of basket weaving. Using weaving techniques such as coiling and plaiting as organizing themes, the editors have curated an exciting collection of imaginative, world-making lyric essays by twenty-seven contemporary Native writers from tribal nations across Turtle Island into a well-crafted basket.
Shapes of Native Nonfiction features a dynamic combination of established and emerging Native writers, including Stephen Graham Jones, Deborah Miranda, Terese Marie Mailhot, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, and Kim TallBear. Their ambitious, creative, and visionary work with genre and form demonstrate the slippery, shape-changing possibilities of Native stories. Considered together, they offer responses to broader questions of materiality, orality, spatiality, and temporality that continue to animate the study and practice of distinct Native literary traditions in North America.

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    June 28, 2019

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      • ISBN: 9780295745770

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      • ISBN: 9780295745770
      • File size: 3500 KB

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      Starred review from June 1, 2019

      Editors Washuta (creative writing, Ohio State; My Body Is a Book of Rules) and Warburton (English, Western Washington Univ.) have pulled together a groundbreaking collection of 27 mostly previously published critical essays and creative nonfiction meant to challenge non-Native scholarly and academic assumptions about how and what Native authors write. The selections eschew straightforward autobiography and fiction in favor of dazzling experiments in nonlinear narrative and content that contests "a voyeuristic obsession with tragedy as the ultimate possible contribution of Native literatures to the broader field." Contributors include Ernestine Hayes, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Eden Robinson, Terese Marie Mailhot, and Deborah Miranda, with the most memorable pieces being Stephen Graham Jones's "Letter to a Just-Starting-Out Indian Writer--and Maybe to Myself"); Tiffany Midge's "Part One: Redeeming the English Language (Acquisition) Series," a clever, funny, political meditation on etymology; Bojan Louis's unconventional travelog, in which he admits "we're proud of the things we don't know"; and Adrienne Keene's powerful and pointed "To the Man Who Gave Me Cancer." VERDICT It's not hard to imagine this work as a staple of creative writing course syllabi for years to come. A must for any library.--Brian Flota, James Madison Univ., Harrisonburg, VA

      Copyright 2019 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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