Closing the Distance: Critic, Reader and the Works of James Welch

MELUS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen Mullen Sands ◽  
James Welch
Keyword(s):  
James Welch

Indians, Modernity, and History

2020 ◽  
pp. 288-296
Author(s):  
Kate Flint
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
The United States ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Native Peoples ◽  
James Welch ◽  
Transatlantic History ◽  
Contemporary Writing ◽  
Modes Of Thought

This chapter assesses how attitudes started to shift at the beginning of the twentieth century—partly under the influence of Western movies, partly as modernist writers and artists started to idealize the Indian for their own ends, and as other wannabe Indians, most notably Grey Owl, began to develop the association of Indianness with environmental preservation. It also looks at some contemporary writing by native peoples—especially James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko—that aims to reappropriate nineteenth-century transatlantic history in a range of imaginative ways. By writing this fiction today, both Silko and Welch reclaim and rewrite the possibilities inherent for native peoples in the late nineteenth century. In so doing, they demonstrate that despite the importance, then and now, of tradition as both concept and practice within Indian society, identity, and modes of thought, it stands not isolated from modernity, but rather in mediation and dialogue with it. At a time when critical attention within American studies has increasingly turned toward imperialism and transnationalism, to explore the importance of the transatlantic Indian is to provide an important reminder that the internal colonial relations of the United States cannot be separated from these other trajectories.

The Death of Jim Loney by James Welch

1980 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-220
Author(s):  
Paul N. Pavich
Keyword(s):  
James Welch

Understanding James Welch by Ron McFarland

2001 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
Eugene T. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
James Welch

Reading the Historical Novel: Reworking the Past and the Relation of Blackfeet History in James Welch's Fools Crow

2009 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-100
Author(s):  
SARAH MARTIN
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Native American ◽  
Native Americans ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Novels ◽  
The Novel ◽  
James Welch ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Impact

The article considers the political impact of the historical novel by examining an example of the genre by Native American novelist James Welch. It discusses how the novel Fools Crow represents nineteenth-century Blackfeet experience, emphasizing how (retelling) the past can act in the present. To do this it engages with psychoanalytic readings of historical novels and the work of Foucault and Benjamin on memory and history. The article concludes by using Bhabha's notion of the “projective past” to understand the political strength of the novel's retelling of the story of a massacre of Native Americans.

Winter Naming: James Welch

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Lincoln
Keyword(s):  
James Welch

Interview with James Welch (1940-2003): November 17, 2001

2005 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 198-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Jane Lupton ◽  
James Welch
Keyword(s):  
James Welch
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