What You Pawn I Will Redeem by Sherman Alexie

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"What You Pawn I Will Redeem," first published in the April 2003 issue of The New Yorker magazine, is Sherman Alexie's contemporary take on the classic quest tale. The main character, Jackson Jackson, embarks on a journey to reclaim his grandmother's stolen powwow regalia, a quest that becomes a journey toward fulfillment and personal identity. Along the way, Jackson's interactions with friends and strangers help fill in the details of his life and his...

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Sherman Alexie Biographies (5)

Sherman Alexie

754 words, approx. 3 pages

Winner of Washington State Arts Commission poetry and National Endowment for the Arts poetry fellowships, Sherman Alexie (born 1966) has published poems, stories, translations, and several books.Sherm... Read more

Sherman Alexie

2,630 words, approx. 9 pages

Sherman Alexie admits he was once a "good" Indian, his term for a person of Native American heritage who does his best to assimilate into mainstream North American society. It drove him to drink, and ... Read more

Sherman (Joseph), (Jr.) Alexie

5,058 words, approx. 17 pages

Sherman Alexie is the "Indian du jour" of the mainstream publishing industry, as he notes in his 1995 Tonic interview with Kelly Myers. Alexie has published seven books and three chapbooks in less tha... Read more

Sherman (Joseph), (Jr.) Alexie

3,978 words, approx. 14 pages

Sherman Alexie's meteoric rise to national prominence among Native American writers occurred in a period of less than five years, beginning not with a blockbuster novel published by a major commercial... Read more

Sherman (Joseph), (Jr.) Alexie

4,520 words, approx. 16 pages

Sherman Alexie's writing has attracted a broad spectrum of readers in a relatively brief span. During his first eight years in publishing, Alexie was awarded the Washington State Arts Commission Poetr... Read more

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