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Native American Literature Considers A Selection Of Post-war Novels By Native American Writers, Including Well Known, Canonical Works Such As Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, As Well As Lesser Known But Equally Enjoyable Texts, Such As Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture And Linda Hogan's Solar Storms. Believing In The Possibility Of Communicating Across Cultural Boundaries, Native American Literature Offers A Series Of Readings That Focus On The Act Of Understanding Imaginatively Texts By Native American And Mixed-blood Authors That Address And Educate A Global Readership.--jacket. Preliminaries: Felicitous Spaces, Infelicitous Places And Eulogized Space -- Tribal Feminism After Modernism: Paula Gunn Allen, The Woman Who Owned The Shadows, 1983 -- Ephanie's Case -- Narrative As Ritual: Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony, 1977 -- The World Of Story In The Writings Of Leslie Marmon Silko And Linda Hogan -- Telling Testimony: Linda Hogan, Power, 1998 -- Narratives Of Healing: Linda Hogan, Solar Storms, 1995 And Power, 1998 -- Lighting Out For The Territory: Janet Campbell Hale, The Jailing Of Cecelia Capture, 1985 -- Autodiegetic Narration: Betty Louise Bell, Faces In The Moon, 1994 -- Homing In: Revisiting The Paradigm -- Indian 'homing' As Healing Ceremony -- Homing In: Transforming The Paradigm -- Narrative Authority In The Ozhibi'ganan Novels. Helen May Dennis. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [207]-229) And Index.