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Chapter 10: Sherman Alexie (1966 - )

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The information below is contributed by Patricia Bostian, Central Piedmont Community College

A registered Spokane/ Coeur d'Alene Indian, Alexie has become a spokesperson for Native Americans. His prize-winning novels, poems, and short stories give voice to Native American characters who are often have no place in either the Indian or the white world.

Primary Works

The Business of Fancydancing: Stories and Poems. Brooklyn, New York: Hanging Loose, 1992.

I Would Steal Horses. Niagara Falls, New York: Slipstream, 1992.

Old Shirts & New Skins. Los Angeles: American Indian Studies Center, University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. PS3551 .L35774 O43

The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1993. PS3551 .L35774 L66

First Indian on the Moon. New York: Hanging Loose, 1993. PS3551 .L35774 F5

Seven Mourning Songs for the Cedar Flute I Have Yet to Learn to Play. Walla Walla, Wash.: Whitman College Book Arts Lab, 1994.

Water Flowing Home: Poems. Boise, Idaho: Limberlost, 1995.

Reservation Blues. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1995. PS3551 .L35774 R74

The Summer of Black Widows. New York: Hanging Loose, 1996. PS3551 .L35774 S86

Indian Killer. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 1996. PS3551 .L35774 I56

Smoke Signals. New York: Hyperion, 1998. Video Cassette PN1997 .S61152x

The Man Who Loves Salmon. Boise, Idaho: Limberlost, 1998.

The Toughest Indian in the World. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2000. PS3551 .L35774 T68

One Stick Song. New York: Hanging Loose, 2000. PS3551 .L35774 O53

Ten Little Indians. New York: Grove Press, 2003.

Selected Bibliography 1980-Present

Brill, Susan B. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 175: Native American Writers of the United States. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1997.

Cutter, Martha J. Lost and Found in Translation: Contemporary Ethnic American Writing and the Politics of Language Diversity. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2005.

Grassian, Daniel, and Matthew J. Bruccoli. Understanding Sherman Alexie. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2005.

McFarland, Ron. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 206: Twentieth-Century American Western Writers, First Series. Detroit: The Gale Group, 1999. 3-10.

Quirk, Sarah A. Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 278: American Novelists Since World War II, Seventh Series. Detroit: The Gale Group, 2003.

MLA Style Citation of this Web Page

Reuben, Paul P. "Chapter 10: Sherman Alexie." PAL: Perspectives in American Literature- A Research and Reference Guide. URL:http://www.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/alexie.html (provide page date or date of your login). 
 

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