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Parker, Robert Dale Nelson, Christopher R. 2015-09-25T20:15:00Z 2015-09-25T20:15:00Z 10000-01-01 2002 2002 My project examines the processes of discipline formation in studies of Native American fiction using the first three novels of the widely acclaimed writer James Welch---Winter in the Blood (1974), The Death of Jim Loney (1979), and Fools Crow (1986). Through Welch's diverse works, I attend to two levels of critical response: how critics make larger claims about approaches to Native American literature more generally, and how they share what I call an ethnographic mode of criticism defined by its parallels with anthropology and its use of ethnographic materials. I show how the ethnographic approach's structuring of the dominant critical readings obscures the narratives' explorations of identity and textuality that range beyond the preservation of a pure, timeless, traditional Indianness. Reading the criticism alongside the novels allows me to expand the boundaries of study to include analysis of critical motivations, strategies, and effects; to expose the problems and dangers of an unexamined adoption of an ethnographic approach; and to analyze the real-world implications of literary criticism for the larger issues of representation so critical in minority studies. Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-25T20:15:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license.txt: 4848 bytes, checksum: 96035ab3f5e1c23cc7138a224ce498bd (MD5) 3070393.pdf: 16498056 bytes, checksum: 58cd862012c683d378a75b173aaf92a8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2002 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 82668 Lift date: Forever Reason: Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs Restricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETDs U of I Only 331 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81387 (MiAaPQ)AAI3070393 eng Literature, Comparative Ethnographic Criticism and Native American Fiction: Cultural Texts, Textual Culture in the Novels of James Welch text English English University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.