Re-Reading Ishi's Story: Interpreting Representation in Three Worlds

by Norman K Denzin and Norman K. Denzin

Rereading Ishi's Story offers a manifesto of sorts through a critical reading of an anthropological classic, Theodora Kroeber's 1961 book, Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America.

The heart of the analysis involves a five-play cycle, built around Gerald Vizenor's trickster-survivance model. It gives Ishi a voice he never had in Kroeber's book and imagines an Ishi who was not the happy warrior in Kroeber's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 036768747X
• ISBN13: 9780367687472
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"