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Understanding James Welch
- Title
- Understanding James Welch / Ron McFarland.
- Author
- McFarland, Ronald E.
- Publication
- Columbia : University of South Carolina Press, [2000], ©2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PS3573.E44 Z78 2000 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 212 pages; 19 cm.
- Summary
- "In Understanding James Welch, Ron McFarland offers analysis and critical commentary on the works of the renowned Blackfoot-Gros Ventre writer whose first novel, Winter in the Blood, has become a classic in Native American fiction and whose book of poems, Riding the Earthboy 40, has remained in print since its initial publication in 1971.
- McFarland offers close readings of Welch's poems, four novels, and recent book, Killing Custer, which tells the story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn from a Native American perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- Understanding contemporary American literature
- Uniform Title
- Understanding contemporary American literature.
- Alternative Title
- James Welch
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-202) and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. "My Subject Has Been Indians": Career and Overview -- Ch. 2. Riding the Earthboy 40: Remaking This World -- Ch. 3. Winter in the Blood as American Picaresque Classic -- Ch. 4. The Tragedy of Jim Loney -- Ch. 5. The Epic Design of Fools Crow -- Ch. 6. Going One-on-One: The Indian Lawyer as Novel of Intrigue -- Ch. 7. Custer as Native American Text -- Annotated Bibliography / Ron McFarland and James Mayo.
- ISBN
- 1570033498
- LCCN
- 00008544
- OCLC
- ocm43567368
- SCSB-3866222
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries