David Treuer

David Treuer

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Writer and Novelist

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Works
Image of Native American Fiction: A User's Manual
Interviews
Books on the shelf The Puzzle of Ethnic Literary Labels

David Treuer is Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation. He’s a literature professor at the University of Southern California, as well as a writer and a novelist. And he does not believe in putting fiction into ethnic boxes.
Person at the Institute for American Indian Arts. The New Voices Of Native American Literature

A wide range of writers — now celebrated with commercial and critical success — work to celebrate an evolving literary canon without limiting it. 
David Treuer No more Native American 'trauma porn'

Ojibwe historian David Treuer thinks it’s time for a new kind of Native American narrative, with fewer stories of hardship and what he calls “trauma porn.” Treuer has written a sweeping counter-narrative of Native American history, “The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.”
Shows
Writing the future New Voices in Native American Writing
Websites
davidtreuer.net