Sovereign Stories ― Aesthetics, Autonomy and Contemporary Native American Writing

Kirwan (literature of the Americas, Goldmiths, U. of London) takes on the idea of nationalism and voice, particularly in the forms of the "outside" voices of Native Americans. He examines David Truer's Who's Afraid of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn?, nationalism and voice, Sherman Alexie and the Third Space of Sovereignty, literary aesthetics and cultural boundaries in David Treuer's Little Portrait of the Artist, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag, the realities of fiction in LeAnne Howe's Shell Shaker, and the future of art, life and criticism in the work of Womack and Sarris. Annotation c2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Padraig Kirwan is Lecturer in the Literature of the Americas at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published articles in NOVEL, Comparative Literature, the Journal of American Studies, and the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, and is co-editor of the volume Affecting Irishness: Negotiating Cultural Identity Within and Beyond the Nation (2009).