Conversations with LeAnne Howe

by Squint, Kirstin L.

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Full title :Conversations with LeAnne Howe / edited by Kirstin L. Squint.

Summary

"Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and beyond our national borders to bring Native American characters and themes to the global stage. Best known for her American Book Award-winning novel Shell Shaker (2001), LeAnne Howe (b. 1951) is also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, theorist, and humorist. She has held numerous honors including a Fulbright Distinguished Scholarship in Amman, Jordan, from 2010 to 2011, and she was the recipient of the Modern Language Association's first Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for her travelogue, Choctalking on Other Realities (2013). Spanning the period from 2002 to 2020, the interviews in this collection delve deeply into Howe's poetics, her innovative critical methodology of tribalography, her personal history, and her position on subjects ranging from the Lone Ranger to Native American mascots. Two previously unpublished interviews, "'An American in New York': LeAnne Howe" (2019) and "Genre-Sliding on Stage with LeAnne Howe" (2020), explore unexamined areas of her personal history and how it impacted her creative work, including childhood trauma and her incubation as a playwright in the 1980s. These conversations along with 2019's Occult Poetry Radio interview also give important insights on the background of Howe's newest critically acclaimed work, Savage Conversations (2019), about Mary Todd Lincoln's hallucination of a "Savage Indian" during her time in Bellevue Place sanitarium. Taken as a whole, Conversations with LeAnne Howe showcases the development and continued impact of one of the most important Indigenous American writers of the twenty-first century"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2022

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2022

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 177 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781496836441, 1496836448, 9781496836458, 1496836456
oclc:on1250304666
LC Classification:PS3608.O95
Dewey Decimal:818/.609

Subjects

Choctaw (Indiens) -- Entretiens Choctaw Indians Choctaw Indians -- Interviews Criticism, interpretation, etc Écrivaines américaines -- Entretiens Écrivains indiens d'Amérique -- Entreti… Howe, LeAnne Indian authors Indian authors -- Interviews. -- North … Indians of North America Indians of North America -- Interviews interviews North America Women authors, American Women authors, American -- Interviews