Library Guides: UM Common Reading Experience 2016: Ten Little Indians: Ten Little Indians & Sherman Alexie

The Book

One copy of Ten Little Indians is available at the Reserve Desk in the J.D. Williams Library (1st floor) for 3-day checkout. This book's call number is PS3551.L35774 T46 2004. Three copies of the book are located in the main library stacks (2nd floor, same call number).

Literary Criticism

Postmodern Magic, Traditional Rage: The Critical Reception of Sherman Alexie's Work
The article offers criticism on works by Native American author Sherman Alexie, including "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" and "Ten Little Indians," both collections of short stories, and the book "Reservation Blues." The author looks at Indian identity, stereotypes, and the influence of popular culture in the book.
“More of the Truth”: The Use of Confession in Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians
Many of the characters in Sherman Alexie's short story collection, Ten Little Indians, engage in confessional relationships for its ritual value as a form that creates a ceremony of shared experience. The confessors, due to this revelatory witnessing, often find themselves reoriented toward a choice or range of action that had seemed closed off. It clarifies their own harbored transgressions, burdening guilt, or acute longing for meaning amid seemingly inscrutable events.
A Rez Kid Gone Urban: Sherman Alexie's Recent Short Fiction
The article offers criticism on short fiction works by Native American author Sherman Alexie, including the books "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "The Toughest Indian in the World," and "Ten Little Indians." The author looks at themes of identity, Indian heroism, and self-determination in the works. The article also discusses how Alexie focuses on contemporary life in his short stories.
'A Limited Range of Motion?': Multiculturalism, 'Human Questions,' and Urban Indian Identity in Sherman Alexie's Ten Little Indians
Studies in American Indian Literatures, 10/1/2009
"Doesn't everybody belong to a subculture?" Community and History in Sherman Alexie's Writing
The article offers criticism on works by Native American author Sherman Alexie, including the books "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven," "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian," and "The Business of Fancydancing." The author looks at the history of Native Americans, the sense of community, and the presence of subcultures in Alexie's work.