Because American Indian literatures are largely informed by their respective oral storytelling traditions, they may be more difficult to understand or interpret than the more text-based literatures wi
Since the initial complicated (and some say disastrous) meeting of the European and Native American worlds, both sides have encountered difficulty in communication. These thirteen essays aim to bridge
"The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945" is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of
Dreese (literature and composition, North Carolina State U.-Raleigh) examines writers who, in constructing themselves, have claimed mythic, psychic, and environmental terrains, and have initiated a fo
In this major collection, Hoffman (English, Athens Technical College, Georgia; founder, American Indian Literatures and Cultures area, American Culture Association) spearheads multi-disciplinary contr
Reading the Fire engages America’s "first literatures," traditional Native American tales and legends, as literary art and part of our collective imaginative heritage. This revised edition o
This volume presents ancient Mexican myths and sacred hymns, lyric poetry, rituals, drama, and various forms of prose, accompanied by informed criticism and comment. The selections come from the Aztec
Welburn (English and Native American Indian Studies at the U. of Massachusetts, Amherst) states in his preface that his lineage "...follows several native paths [Cherokee/Assateague-Gingaskin], intert
Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is
The author examines how diasporic individuals engage with aspects of Indian beauty, femininity, and fashion and how these encounters create practices of citizenship and belonging, looking at the impac
In this book of essays, Vizenor presents a stark but vital view of reservation life in the early 1970s, a collection that Studies in American Indian Literatures called "memorable portraits of real pe
