UM Common Reading Experience 2016: Ten Little Indians

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.

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.

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.

Studies in American Indian Literatures, 10/1/2009

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.

Magill’s Literary Annual 2004; June 2004

Antioch Review; Summer2004

Library Journal; 5/15/2003

Booklist; 4/15/2003