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Schubnell traces the historical, cultural, familial, literary, and anthropological backgrounds of the entire Momaday canon and presents him as a mainstream writer formed by both Native American and European American traditions. He outlines Momaday's concept of self-realization through language in the context not only of Indian oral tradition but also of James Joyce, Marcel Proust, and Isak Dinesen; sees his view of nature as an extension of New England...

N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of House Made of Dawn (1969) and National Medal of Arts awardee, is the elder statesman of Native American literature and a major twentieth-century American author. This volume marks the most comprehensive resource available on Momaday. Along with an insightful new biography, it offers extensive, up-to-date bibliographies of his own work and the work of others about him. Phyllis Morgan's account of Momaday's...

"In "I Remain Alive," Ruth J. Heflin explores the literary endeavors of five of the most prominent Native American writers from the turn of the century - Charles Eastman, Gertrude Bonnin, Luther Standing Bear, Nicholas Black Elk, and Ella Deloria - and challenges the traditional view of Native American literature." "Their stories helped shape the future of America; its identity; its developing appreciation of nature; its acceptance of alternative...

Helen Jaskoski examines Leslie Silko's short stories, focusing on Silko's use of the physical and cultural geography of the Southwest and the history of Laguna Pueblo.

"Joy Harjo is a "poet-healer-philosopher-saxophonist," and one of the most powerful Native American voices of her generation. She has spent the past two decades exploring her place in poetry, music, dance/performance, and art. Soul Talk, Song Language gathers together in one complete collection many of these explorations and conversations. Through an eclectic assortment of media, including personal essays, interviews, and newspaper columns, Harjo...

"In this first book-length examination of Owen's writings, Chris LaLonde focuses on five critically acclaimed novels: The Sharpest Sight, Bone Game, Wolfsong, Nightland, and Dark River. According to LaLonde, Owens works his stories like a trickster, turning ideas back against themselves and playing with contradictory possibilities. The conflicting Native and Western perspectives of time, history, humor, and authority dramatize how such clashes can...

While Silko, Momaday, and Welch are the most prominent contemporary Native writers--in no small measure because all write novels which are both more profitable and more popular than poetry or short stories--other Indian writers have also gained distinction, though perhaps in smaller circles. One of these other writers has certainly been Simon Ortiz, Acoma poet and fiction writer. His associations with Silko and Momaday, as well as with other Native...

Explains how Native Americans understand the world and their place in it and discusses what other cultures can learn by studying Native American beliefs and traditions.

"Writing Home explores the ways that Indigenous writers use ideas and structures from primarily oral traditions to resist, for example, colonial metanarratives that legitimize and even demand the disappearance of Indigenous peoples--Manifest Destiny, Social Darwinism, and the inevitable plight of the tragic "mixed blood." To this end, Wilson examines selected works by Mourning Dove (Humishuma), Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Erdrich,...