The Cambridge companion to Native American literature /

The Cambridge companion to Native American literature /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Porter, Joy, 1967-, Roemer, Kenneth M., 1945-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
Subjects:
American literature > Indian authors > History and criticism.
Indians of North America > Intellectual life.
Indians in literature.
Table of 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.