The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones
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The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

A Critical Companion

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 31 Dec |Learn more

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones

A Critical Companion

About this book

Even as Stephen Graham Jones generates a dizzying range of brilliant fiction, his work remains strikingly absent from scholarly conversations about Native and western American literature, owing in part to his unapologetic embrace of popular genres such as horror and science fiction. Steeped in dense narrative references, literary and historical allusions, and experimental postmodern stylings, his fiction informs a broad array of literary and popular conversations.

The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones is the first collection of scholarship on Jones's ever-expanding oeuvre. The diverse methodologies that inform these essaysā€”from Native American critical theory to poststructuralism and gothic noirismā€”illuminate the unique complexity of Jones's narrative worlds while positioning his works within broader conversations in literary studies and popular culture. Jones challenges at every turn the notions of what constitutes Native American literature and what it means to be a Native American writer. Contributing editor Billy J. Stratton foregrounds these heavily contested questions and their ongoing relevance to readers and critics alike.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Letter to a Just-Starting-Out Indian Writerā€”And Maybe to Myself / Stephen Graham Jones
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Come for the Icing, Stay for the Cake: An Introduction to the Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones / Billy J. Stratton
  8. Observations on the Shadow Self: Dialogues with Stephen Graham Jones / Billy J. Stratton and Stephen Graham Jones
  9. PART 1: Storier of Postmodern Survivance
  10. PART 2: Writing at the Margins
  11. PART 3: Jones and Genre: Speculative Explorations into the Desert of the Real
  12. Afterword / Paul Tremblay
  13. A Cartographic Note on the Archives of Stephen Graham Jones
  14. APPENDIX 1: Before The Fast Red Road: The Golias Papers and Other Ephemera
  15. APPENDIX 2: The Unexpurged Glossary of Terms from The Bird Is Gone
  16. APPENDIX 3: An Excerpt from Demon Theory: A Very Graphic Novel
  17. Contributors
  18. Index
  19. Back Cover