The Cambridge Companion To Native American Literature

by Edited by Joy Porter , Kenneth M. Roemer

• ISBN13: 9780521529792
• ISBN10: 0521529794
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-05
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day. In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts--Native and non-Native; American, British and European scholars--it includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	ix
Notes on contributors	x
Acknowledgments	xvi
A note on individual and tribal names	xvii
Introduction	1	(24)
Kenneth M. Roemer
Timeline: literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions	25	(14)
Kenneth M. Roemer
Part I Historical and cultural contexts
Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature	39	(30)
Joy Porter
Translation and mediation	69	(16)
David Murray
Women writers and gender issues	85	(20)
Annette Van Dyke
Part II Genre contexts
Non-fiction prose	105	(20)
Bernd Peyer
Native American life writing	125	(20)
Hertha D. Sweet Wong
America's indigenous poetry	145	(16)
Norma C. Wilson
Pre-1968 fiction	161	(12)
A. Lavonne Brown Ruoff
Fiction: 1968 to the present	173	(16)
James Ruppert
American Indian theatre	189	(18)
Ann Haugo
Part III Individual authors
N. Scott Momaday: becoming the bear	207	(14)
Chadwick Allen
Simon Ortiz: writing home	221	(12)
Patricia Clark Smith
James Welch: identity, circumstance, and chance	233	(12)
Kathryn W. Shanley
Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller	245	(12)
Robert M. Nelson
Gerald Vizenor: postindian liberation	257	(14)
Kimberly M. Blaeser
Louise Erdrich's storied universe	271	(12)
Catherine Rainwater
Joy Harjo's poetry	283	(14)
Laura Coltelli
Sherman Alexie: irony, intimacy, and agency	297	(14)
David L. Moore
Bio-bibliographies	311	(18)
Further reading	329	(2)
Index	331