| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages) : PDF file(s) |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Contents |
Introduction / Kenneth M. Roemer -- Timeline: literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions / Kenneth M. Roemer -- PART I. HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXTS -- Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature / Joy Porter -- Translation and mediation / David Murray -- Women writers and gender issues / Annette Van Dyke -- PART II. GENRE CONTEXTS -- Non-fiction prose / Bernd Peyer -- Native American life writing / Hertha D. Sweet Wong -- America's indigenous poetry / Norma C. Wilson -- Pre-1968 fiction / A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff -- Fiction: 1968 to the present / James Ruppert -- American Indian theatre / Ann Haugo -- PART III. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS -- N. Scott Momaday: becoming the bear / Chadwick Allen -- Simon Ortiz: writing home / Patricia Clark Smith -- James Welch: identity, circumstances and chance / Kathryn W. Shanley -- Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller / Robert M. Nelson -- Gerald Vizenor: postindian liberation / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- Louise Erdrich's storied universe / Catherine Rainwater -- Joy Harjo's poetry / Laura Coltelli -- Sherman Alexie: irony, intimacy, and agency / David L. Moore |
| Summary |
Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors who established a place for Native literature in literary canons in the 1970s (Momaday, Silko, Welch, Ortiz, Vizenor), achieved international recognition in the 1980s (Erdrich), and performance-celebrity status in the 1990s (Harjo and Alexie). In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts - Native and non-Native; American, British and European scholars - the Companion includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American literature and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events. An essential overview of this powerful literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism
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Indians of North America -- Intellectual life
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Indians in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Author |
Roemer, Kenneth M., Contributor
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Porter, Joy, Contributor
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| LC no. |
2005044298 |
| ISBN |
1139000829 |
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9781139000826 |
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