Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"
    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"
    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"
    Ebook34 pages23 minutes

    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"

    By Gale and Cengage

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535826068
    A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"

    Read more from Gale

    Related to A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"

    Related ebooks

    Literary Criticism For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Literary Deaths of 2022

      Dec 29, 2022

      In 2022, we mourned the deaths of many literary giants who remained under-celebrated in their lifetimes. These are some of them. With his eye patch and no-bullshit demeanor, Andrew Vachss was a man on a mission. He was an author of hard-boiled fictio

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019

      Nov 23, 2019

      The Best Nonfiction Books of 2019
      7 min read

    • Article

      Lost Souls

      May 1, 2018

      Lost Souls
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 250

      Dec 7, 2021

      The Art of Fiction No. 250
      31 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Bill Morris

      Dec 20, 2020

      This was the year I finally, belatedly, decided to figure out why people make such a fuss about Joy Williams. The post A Year in Reading: Bill Morris appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Allende, Smith, Eisenberg, Cummins, Chayka, and More

      Jan 21, 2020

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Isabel Allende, Danez Smith, Emma Copley Eisenberg, Jeanine Cummins, Kyle Chayka, and more—that are publishing this week. Want to learn more about upcoming titles? Then go read ou

      5 min read

    • Article

      Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett

      Apr 11, 2024

      I knew from the dozens of other interviews I had read with him that Everett doesn’t love doing press. “I wonder why?” he joked to me. The post Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett appeared first on The Millions.

      19 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Hong, Cote, Harris, McCann, and More

      Feb 25, 2020

      This week, we're looking at new books from Cathy Park Hong, Teddy Wayne, and Colum McCann—just to name a few. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Hong, Cote, Harris, McCann, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Winslow, Kois, Tóibín, and More

      Jan 17, 2023

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new release titles from De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Dan Kois, Colm Tóibín, and more—that are publishing this week. Want to learn more about upcoming titles? Then go read our most recent book preview. Want to he

      7 min read

    • Article

      5 Books Making News This Week: Brexit, Blacklists, and Biographies

      Feb 28, 2017

      Arlie Russell Hochschild’s Strangers in Their Own Land, Nancy Isenberg’s White Trash, Jane Mayer’s Dark Money, Zachary Roth’s The Great Suppression and Gary Younge’s Another Day in the Death of America are named finalists for the J. Anthony Lukas Boo

      6 min read

    • Article

      Fiction on Trial

      Sep 5, 2023

      Fiction on Trial
      10 min read

    • Article

      I Have Never Felt That I Have Roots: The Millions Interviews Isabel Allende

      Jul 8, 2019

      I didn’t plan to write about refugees, but the conversations are all around us, and it just seeps into my books. In this one, it is the central theme. The post I Have Never Felt That I Have Roots: The Millions Interviews Isabel Allende appeared first

      5 min read

    • Article

      Charlottesville, Brexit, and Trump: From News Cycle To Novel

      Aug 10, 2018

      On the morning of Sunday, August 12th, 2017, around 500 white supremacists began to assemble in Emancipation Park, Charlottesville, Virginia for the Unite the Right rally. The group, which included armed militias, Klansmen and members of the alt-righ

      5 min read

    • Article

      Vonnegut Inc.

      Nov 25, 2020

      Vonnegut Inc.
      8 min read

    • Article

      Open Your Eyes, Edward James Olmos

      Jul 5, 2022

      Open Your Eyes, Edward James Olmos
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Greatest Sexual Revolution

      Dec 2, 2019

      The Greatest Sexual Revolution
      18 min read

    • Article

      Rival Bonds

      Dec 24, 2019

      Rival Bonds
      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising"

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      A Study Guide for Donald Barthelme's "Indian Uprising" - Gale

      1

      The Indian Uprising

      Donald Barthelme

      1968

      Introduction

      In Donald Barthelme's short story The Indian Uprising, the unnamed narrator tells of a battle between his troops and a group referred to as the Comanches. Interspersed between scenes of battle and the torture of a captured Comanche are the narrator's memories of past events and people, conversations with his girlfriend, Sylvia, and sessions with a teacher named Miss R. Ultimately, the narrator's soldiers find themselves overrun by the enemy; the narrator has been betrayed by Sylvia and fooled by Miss R., both of whom reveal that they have sided with the Comanches. At the story's end, the narrator is taken prisoner and presented to a Clemency Committee, thanks to Miss R., with the Comanches in attendance.

      Some critics and scholars have considered Barthelme a writer of metafiction; that is, writing that draws attention to the fact that it is an artifact, not naturally occurring, in order to bring up questions about reality and its relation to fiction. Critics have also called Barthelme a writer of postmodern fiction, which is variously defined as fiction written by anyone after 1945, fiction that blurs the line between high and popular culture, or fiction that questions previous literary forms (the definitions of postmodernism are multiple and often contradictory).

      In this story, as in most of his work, Barthleme experiments with word usage, syntax, narrative flow, and time to create a collage of images rather than a traditionally structured tale. Very little is revealed about the action's location or the characters' backgrounds, but the images Barthelme paints are rich with the curious detail of everyday material items and popular culture. Some critics have noted that the story, written in the 1960s, reflects the televised terrors of the Vietnam War and its protesters, as well as the historical violence of the American West. Others have focused on the story's warlike representation of male-female

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1