The Cambridge Companion To Native American Literature

Invisible marginal expected these words trace the path of recognition forAmerican Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenthcentury. This C... » 

Invisible marginal expected these words trace the path of recognition forAmerican Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenthcentury. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by definingrelevant institutional historical cultural and gender contexts by outliningthe variety of genres written since the 1770s and also by focusing onsignificant authors who established a place for Native literature in literarycanons in the 1970s Momaday Silko Welch Ortiz Vizenor achievedinternational recognition in the 1980s Erdrich and performancecelebritystatus in the 1990s Harjo and Alexie. In addition to the seventeen chapterswritten by respected experts Native and nonNative American British andEuropean scholars the Companion includes biobibliographies of forty authorsmaps suggestions for further reading and a timeline which details major worksof Native American literature and mainstream American literature as well assignificant social cultural and historical events. An essential overview ofthis powerful literature. «