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Book SynopsisFocuses on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. This work contains essays that consider the complex social and political influences that have shaped American Indian literatures in the second half of the twentieth century, with particular emphasis on core themes of identity, sovereignty, and land.
Trade ReviewAll of the essays in this book provide essential updates on contemporary American Indian writing. -- Norma C. Wilson South Dakota History
Table of ContentsEditor's Introduction Part I The (Post)colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law, by Eric Cheyfitz Part II 1. American Indian Fiction and Anticolonial Resistance, by Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott 2. Cannons and Canonization: American Indian Poetries Through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization, by Kimberly M. Blaeser 3. American Indian Drama and the Politics of Performance, by Shari Huhndorf 4. Sovereignty and the Struggle for Representation in American Indian Nonfiction, by David Murray 5. Imagining Self and Community in American Indian Autobiography, by Kendall Johnson Index
