Contents

• 1. Tradition, Invention, and Aesthetics in Native American Literature and Literary Criticism
• 2. Nothing to Do: John Joseph Mathews’s Sundown and Restless Young Indian Men
• 3. Who Shot the Sheriff: Storytelling, Indian Identity, and the Marketplace of Masculinity in D’Arcy McNickle’s The Surrounded
• 4. Text, Lines, and Videotape : Reinventing Oral Stories as Written Poems
• 5. The Existential Surfboard and the Dream of Balance, or "To be there, no authority to anything": The Poetry of Ray A. Young Bear
• 6. The Reinvention of Restless Young Men: Storytelling and Poetry in Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Thomas King’s Medicine River
• 7. Material Choices: American Fictions and the Post-canon
• App. Legs, Sex, Orgies, Speed, and Alcohol, After Strange Gods: John Joseph Mathews’s Lost Generation Letter