Journal article
"There Is a Right Way"
Studies in American Indian literatures, Vol.18(3), pp.82-89
10/01/2006
DOI: 10.1353/ail.2006.0043
Abstract
A close reading of one of the collection's most economical and highly crafted lyrics, "There Is a Right Way," demonstrates the process by which Welch harnessed the lyric form to his own emerging historical consciousness-what he calls his "renegade words"-as a Blackfeet/Gros Ventre man taking stock of his life at the middle of the twentieth century. For Vizenor, natural reason operates as an ethical imperative within a contemporary American Indian literature of survivance, poised against a Euramerican field of domination in which "chance and fate" are denied Native peoples, replaced by stasis, stagnation, and nostalgia.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- "There Is a Right Way"
- Creators
- Phillip Round
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Studies in American Indian literatures, Vol.18(3), pp.82-89
- DOI
- 10.1353/ail.2006.0043
- ISSN
- 0730-3238
- eISSN
- 1548-9590
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/2006
- Academic Unit
- English
- Record Identifier
- 9984398705702771
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