{"product_id":"conversations-with-leanne-howe-paperback","title":"Conversations with Leanne Howe - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKirstin L. Squint\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eConversations with LeAnne Howe \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 \u003ci\u003eShell Shaker \u003c\/i\u003e(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, \u003ci\u003eChoctalking on Other Realities \u003c\/i\u003e(2013). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning 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 Two previously unpublished interviews, \"'An American in New York' LeAnne Howe\" (2019) and \"Genre-Sliding on Stage with LeAnne Howe\" (2020), explore unexamined areas of her personal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 \u003ci\u003eOccult Poetry Radio \u003c\/i\u003einterview also give important insights on the background of Howe's newest critically acclaimed work, \u003ci\u003eSavage Conversations \u003c\/i\u003e(2019), about Mary Todd Lincoln's hallucination of a \"Savage Indian\" during her time in Bellevue Place sanitarium. Taken as a whole, \u003ci\u003eConversations with LeAnne Howe\u003c\/i\u003e showcases the development and continued impact of one of the most important Indigenous American writers of the twenty-first century.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirstin L. Squint\u003c\/b\u003e is the Whichard Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Humanities (2019-2022) and associate professor of English, specializing in Native American literatures, at East Carolina University. She is author of \u003ci\u003eLeAnne Howe at the Intersections of Southern and Native American Literature \u003c\/i\u003eand coeditor of \u003ci\u003eSwamp Souths: Literary and Cultural Ecologies\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also a contributor to \u003ci\u003eAppalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to \"Hillbilly Elegy,\" \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the 2020 American Book Award for criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 202\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.46 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42160180461703,"sku":"9781496836458","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d0c479e56fd7c98383a517081a8d50b7.webp?v=1733272263","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/conversations-with-leanne-howe-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}