Reviews for Carson Mccullers, New Edition

The average rating for Carson Mccullers, New Edition based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-02-08 00:00:00 Wallace Chin Excerpts: Introduction: "Failing to recognize the existence of genres is equivalent to claiming that a literary work does not bear any relationship to already existing works. Genres are precisely those relay-points by which the work assumes a relation with the universe of literature" --Tzvetan Todorov (3). "There is no genre of 'Indian Literature' because we are all different. There is only literature written by people who are Indian and who, therefor, infuse their work with their own lives the same way you do." --Wendy Rose (3). "In a 1987 article, Joseph Bruchac lists four 'shared understandings' of Native American poetry. There are (in abbreviated form) 1. Traditions of respect for the Earth and the Natural world. 2. An awareness of a strong tribal/folk culture which has been transmitted to them either by family or learned through continued personal seeking. 3. Respect for the awesome power of the Word. Power which can quite literally make or destroy, break or heal. 4. The awareness that English, even if they have grown up with it and mastered it, even if they have little or no practical knowledge of their original tribal language, is a different language for them than it is for the average 'American' writer" (8). Janice Gould: "one function of American Indian poetry has been to 'resist cultural erasure,' to question the dominant narrative, and to remember our histories clearly as a way to resist both amnesia and nostalgia" (10). Robert Nelson identifies pan-Indian "tropes of emergence, survival, return, and renewal" (16).

Review # 2 was written on 2019-04-27 00:00:00 Claude Mathess an insightful collection of essays on topics and poets writing from a native american perspective. some of these should really be required reading for all american literature courses.