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Bleed into Me

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| author = Stephen Graham Jones

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| country = United States

| language = English

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| publisher = University of Nebraska Press

| release_date = September 1, 2005

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| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)

| pages = 152 pp (first edition, paperback)

| isbn = 0-8032-2605-5

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| preceded_by = The Bird is Gone: A Manifesto

| followed_by = Demon Theory

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Bleed into Me is a collection of short stories by Stephen Graham Jones and is part of Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Bleed into Me|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8032-2605-0|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125031844/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8032-2605-0 |archive-date=2020-11-25 |access-date=2020-10-09|website=Publishers Weekly}}

Synopsis

The book collects 17 short stories by Native American author Stephen Graham Jones:

  • "Halloween"
  • "Venison"
  • "Captivity Narrative 109"
  • "To Run Without Falling"
  • "Episode 43: Incest"
  • "Nobody Knows This"
  • "Bile"
  • "Filius Nervosus"
  • "Last Success"
  • "Conquistadors"
  • "These Are the Names I Know"
  • "The Fear of Jumping"
  • "Bleed into Me"
  • "Carbon"
  • "Every Night Was Halloween"
  • "Discovering America"

Reception

Barbara J. Cook reviewed Bleed into Me for Studies in American Indian Literatures, noting that "In this collection of short stories, Stephen Graham Jones (Blackfeet) captures what it often means to be Indian in the twenty-first century."{{Cite journal|last=Cook|first=Barbara J.|date=2008|title=Review of Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories. Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20737412|journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures|volume=20|issue=1|pages=79–81|doi=10.1353/ail.0.0000|jstor=20737412|s2cid=161836160|issn=0730-3238}} Amelia Gray, reviewing for Southwestern American Literature, stated that much of the violence in the collection's stories was "understated to the point of soundlessness", but that in "Captivity Narrative 109" the "narrative begins to battle with itself" as "Aiche's apathy borders on comic".{{Cite journal|last=Gray|first=Amelia|date=2005-09-22|title=Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories|url=https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=LitRC&sw=w&issn=00491675&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA207283608&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs|journal=Southwestern American Literature|language=English|volume=31|issue=1|pages=76–79}}

=Awards=

The novel won the following awards:

  • Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award: For Fiction
  • Finalist for the Texas Writers League Violet Crown Award

Further reading

  • {{Cite book |last=Stratton |first=Billy J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LMzDQAAQBAJ&q=The+Fictions+of+Stephen+Graham+Jones:+A+Critical+Companion |title=The Fictions of Stephen Graham Jones: A Critical Companion |date=2016-12-01 |publisher=University of New Mexico Press |isbn=978-0-8263-5769-4 |language=en}}

References

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External links

  • {{official website|https://www.demontheory.net/bleed-into-me/}}

{{Stephen Graham Jones}}

Category:Novels by Stephen Graham Jones

Category:Native American novels

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