David Treuer Boeken

A sweeping history - and counter-narrative - of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present.

"Little is set in the fictional reservation town of Poverty, Minnesota, and tells the story of a boy named little and three generations of his family. Among them is Donovan, rescued as a boy from a car half-buried by snow; Stan, a veteran of the Vietnam war; Duke and Ellis, the twins who built the first house in Poverty; and Jeannette, the matriarch who walked hundreds of miles to reunite with her family."-- Provided by publisher

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is a story of Native American resilience and reinvention, adapted for young adults from the adult nonfiction book of the same name.Since the late 1800s, it has been believed that Native American civilization has been wiped from the United States. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee argues that Native American culture is far from defeated—if anything, it is thriving as much today as it was one hundred years ago. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee looks at Native American culture as it exists today—and the fight to preserve language and traditions.  Adapted for young readers, this important young adult nonfiction book is perfect educational material for children and adults alike.

David Treuer's debut nonfiction work offers a nuanced exploration of life on Native American reservations, blending storytelling with keen observation. He delves into the historical and contemporary experiences of Native communities, challenging stereotypes and highlighting resilience. Through rich narratives, Treuer illuminates the complexities of identity, culture, and the impact of history on modern reservation life, showcasing his unique perspective as a celebrated novelist.

Rather than create a comprehensive cultural and historical genealogy for Native American literature, David Treuer investigates a selection of the most important Native American novels and, with a novelist's eye and a critic's mind, examines the intricate process of understanding literature on its own terms.Native American Fiction: A User's Manual is speculative, witty, engaging, and written for the inquisitive reader. These essays—on Sherman Alexie, Forrest Carter, James Fenimore Cooper, Louise Erdrich, Leslie Marmon Silko, and James Welch—are rallying cries for the need to read literature as literature and, ultimately, reassert the importance and primacy of the word.This book has been written with the narrow conviction that if Native American literature is worth thinking about at all, it is worth thinking about as literature. The vast majority of thought that has been poured out onto Native American literature has puddled, for the most part, on how the texts are positioned in relation to history or culture.

Recently widowed, and encouraged by government relocation schemes to move Native Americans off their reservations, Betty takes her four young children from their Ojibwe roots to make a new life in Minneapolis. Her younger son Lester finds romance on the soon-to-be-demolished train, The Hiawatha, while his older brother Simon takes a dangerous job scaling skyscrapers. Their fates collide, and result in a tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.An elegy to the American dream, and to the sometimes tragic experience of the Native Americans who helped to build it, The Hiawatha is a powerful novel that confirms David Treuer's status as a young writer of rare talent.

Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young Indian lovers in an unspoiled and snowy woodland, David Treuer weaves together two love stories. Enthralling and suspenseful, The Translation of Dr. Apelles dares to redefine the Native American novel.

A haunting and unforgettable novel about love, loss, race, and desire in World War II–era America.On a sweltering day in August 1942, Frankie Washburn returns to his family's rustic Minnesota resort for one last visit before he joins the war as a bombardier, headed for the darkened skies over Europe. Awaiting him are his hovering mother, his distant father, the Indian caretaker who's been more of a father to him than his own, and Billy, the childhood friend who over the years has become something much more intimate. But before the homecoming can be celebrated, the search for a German soldier, escaped from the POW camp across the river, explodes in a shocking act of violence, with consequences that will reverberate years into the future for all of them and that will shape how each of them makes sense of their lives. Powerful and wholly original, Prudence is a story of desire, loss, and the search for connection in a riven world; of race and class in a supposedly more innocent era. Most profoundly, it's about the secrets we choose to keep, the ones we can't help telling, and whom – and how – we’re supposed to love.

Historia Indian pełna jest dramatycznych wydarzeń i bohaterów o poetyckich imionach. Jednak wielcy wodzowie pykający fajkę pokoju należą już do przeszłości (a może raczej do naszych fantazji o przeszłości). Życie ich potomków we współczesnych rezerwatach jest znacznie mniej romantyczne, choć nadal budzi wiele emocji. David Treuer, członek plemienia Odżibuejów i ceniony powieściopisarz, dorastał w rezerwacie Leech Lake, ale wykształcenie zdobywał na białych uniwersytetach. Dzięki temu potrafił pogodzić dwie perspektywy, uczestnika i obserwatora, co w połączeniu z niezwykłym talentem narracyjnym, poczuciem humoru i otwartością dało wspaniałe efekty. Witajcie w rezerwacie to książka, która przeprowadzi nas przez meandry historii, wyjaśni znaczenie kolejnych traktatów, wytłumaczy skomplikowane rozwiązania prawne obowiązujące w rezerwatach, poda główne przyczyny napięć między Indianami a nie-Indianami. A przede wszystkim pozwoli nam zobaczyć, jak dziś żyją mieszkańcy rezerwatów, jak radzą sobie z biedą, przestępczością, jak łączą tożsamość indiańską z amerykańską i jak walczą o zachowanie swojego dziedzictwa.