John Purdy
Biographic Data
| ID | 858286 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Purdy |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Purdy |
| SIGNATURE | PURDY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
People, Place and Politics: D’Arcy McNickle’s (Re)Valuing of Native American Principles
Today, societies have intensified their discourse about the concept of “sustainability,” a term that has expanded to consider the viability of political and economic systems once believed to be inevitable and inviolable. Of course this is not the first time we have searched for a deeper understanding of the interaction between humanity and its surroundings. By looking at the literary production of one Native American author, D’Arcy McNickle, who …
From the (Former) Editors: Thank You
Writing Indian, Native Conversations
"Since N. Scott Momaday's 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn brought Native American fiction squarely into mainstream culture, the genre has expanded in different ways and in new directions. The result is a Native American-written literature that requires a variety of critical approaches, including a discussion of how this canon differs from the familiar, established canons of American literature. Drawing on personal experience as well as…
Time to Say Hello
No One Ever Did This to Me before: Contemporary American Indian Texts in the Classroom
AT TIMES, IT SEEMS OUR GOAL as teachers of introductory courses in Native American literatures is to promote contradiction: to circumscribe a distinct area of American literature while we praise its great diversity of voices, to categorize it while we resist it being categorized simply as ethnic literature. Paradox is, of course, inherent in our task. For today's Native American author, the dilemma remains: how to assert tribal identity in modern…
Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle
Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle
Journal Article Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle and Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology Get access Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle. By Purdy John Lloyd. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990. xiv + 167 pp. Illustration, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology. By Basso Keith H.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Pres…
He Was Going along: Motion in the Novels of James Welch
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE INTERACTION between culture, motion and narrative is nowhere more apparent than in writings of contemporary Native Americans. The reasons are deceptively simple, and suggest a number of intriguing, complex associations between fiction and autobiography, community and individual, art and life, people and place. authors employ, in various ways and to varying degrees, ancient verbal literary traditions that reflect long-s…
No One Ever Did This to Me before: Contemporary American Indian Texts in the Classroom
AT TIMES, IT SEEMS OUR GOAL as teachers of introductory courses in Native American literatures is to promote contradiction: to circumscribe a distinct area of American literature while we praise its great diversity of voices, to categorize it while we resist it being categorized simply as ethnic literature. Paradox is, of course, inherent in our task. For today's Native American author, the dilemma remains: how to assert tribal identity in modern…
He Was Going along: Motion in the Novels of James Welch
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE INTERACTION between culture, motion and narrative is nowhere more apparent than in writings of contemporary Native Americans. The reasons are deceptively simple, and suggest a number of intriguing, complex associations between fiction and autobiography, community and individual, art and life, people and place. authors employ, in various ways and to varying degrees, ancient verbal literary traditions that reflect long-s…
He Was Going along: Motion in the Novels of James Welch
IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, THE INTERACTION between culture, motion and narrative is nowhere more apparent than in writings of contemporary Native Americans. The reasons are deceptively simple, and suggest a number of intriguing, complex associations between fiction and autobiography, community and individual, art and life, people and place. authors employ, in various ways and to varying degrees, ancient verbal literary traditions that reflect long-s…
Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle
Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle
Journal Article Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle and Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology Get access Word Ways: The Novels of D'Arcy McNickle. By Purdy John Lloyd. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1990. xiv + 167 pp. Illustration, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $27.95.)Western Apache Language and Culture: Essays in Linguistic Anthropology. By Basso Keith H.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Pres…
No One Ever Did This to Me before: Contemporary American Indian Texts in the Classroom
AT TIMES, IT SEEMS OUR GOAL as teachers of introductory courses in Native American literatures is to promote contradiction: to circumscribe a distinct area of American literature while we praise its great diversity of voices, to categorize it while we resist it being categorized simply as ethnic literature. Paradox is, of course, inherent in our task. For today's Native American author, the dilemma remains: how to assert tribal identity in modern…
Time to Say Hello
Writing Indian, Native Conversations
"Since N. Scott Momaday's 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn brought Native American fiction squarely into mainstream culture, the genre has expanded in different ways and in new directions. The result is a Native American-written literature that requires a variety of critical approaches, including a discussion of how this canon differs from the familiar, established canons of American literature. Drawing on personal experience as well as…
From the (Former) Editors: Thank You
People, Place and Politics: D’Arcy McNickle’s (Re)Valuing of Native American Principles
Today, societies have intensified their discourse about the concept of “sustainability,” a term that has expanded to consider the viability of political and economic systems once believed to be inevitable and inviolable. Of course this is not the first time we have searched for a deeper understanding of the interaction between humanity and its surroundings. By looking at the literary production of one Native American author, D’Arcy McNickle, who …
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