Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-292) and index
Introduction - "Imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket": an introduction to Sherman Alexie - Jeff Berglund -- - Dancing that way, things began to change: the ghost dance as pantribal metaphor in Sherman Alexie's writing - Lisa Tatonetti -- - "Survival = anger x imagination": Sherman Alexie's dark humor - Philip Heldrich -- - "An extreme need to tell the truth": silence and language in Sherman Alexie's "The trial of Thomas Builds-the-fire" - Elizabeth Archuleta -- - Rock and roll, redskins, and blues in Sherman Alexie's work - P. Jane Hafen -- - This is what it means to say reservation cinema: making cinematic Indians in Smoke signals - James H. Cox -- - Native sensibility and the significance of women in Smoke signals - Angelica Lawson -- - The distinctive sonority of Sherman Alexie's indigenous poetics - Susan Berry Brill de Ramírez -- - The poetics of tribalism in Sherman Alexie's The summer of black widows - Nancy J. Peterson -- - Sherman Alexie's challenge to the academy's teaching of Native American literature, non-native writers, and critics - Patrice Hollrah -- - "Indians do not live in cities, they only reside there": captivity and the urban wilderness in Indian killer - Meredith James -- - Indigenous liaisons: sex/gender variability, indianness, and intimacy in Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world - Stephen F. Evans -- - Sherman Alexie's transformation of "Ten little Indians" - Margaret O'Shaughnessey -- - Healing the soul wound in Flight and The absolutely true diary of a part-time Indian - Jan Johnson -- - The business of writing: Sherman Alexie's meditations on authorship - Jeff Berglund
