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| Author | Sherman Alexie |
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| Language | English |
| Publication date | 2009 |
War Dances is a 2009 collection of short stories and poems by Sherman Alexie. It received the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.
War Dances collects twenty-three short pieces, alternating between poems and short works of fiction. The poems are as follows:
The short fiction pieces—which vary between short stories, vignettes, flash fiction, imagined dialogue, et al.—are as follows:
The titular short story, "War Dances," was also published in the New Yorker in 2009.
In the press release announcing War Dances as the winner of the PEN/Faulker prize, Judge Al Young said, "War Dances taps every vein and nerve, every tissue, every issue that quickens the current blood-pulse: parenthood, divorce, broken links, sex, gender and racial conflict, substance abuse, medical neglect, 9/11, Official Narrative vs. What Really Happened, settler religion vs. native spirituality; marketing, shopping, and war, war, war. All the heartbreaking ways we don't live now - this is the caring, eye-opening beauty of this rollicking, bittersweet gem of a book."
SUNY-New Palz assigned War Dances as its 2011 College’s Common Summer Reading Program, paired with another work by Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.
Westron, Lorree (Spring 2010). "Reviewed Work: War Dances by Sherman Alexie." Western American Literature. 45 (1): 82-83 — via JSTOR.
Wyman, Sarah (Spring 2014). "Telling Identities: Sherman Alexie's War Dances." American Indian Quarterly. 38 (2): 237-255 — via JSTOR.
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