San Antonio College Library

This companion guide to the authors' 1996 work, The Native American in Long Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography, compiles annotated entries on all identifiable novel-length fictional works by and about Native Americans published primarily between 1995 and 2002. It identifies Native American authors who have written long fiction on themes relevant to their history, social conditions, and culture, and includes works by non-Native American authors that...

This work is a collection of interviews with some of today's most important Native Americans. In these interviews, contextualized in a national and international sociopolitical perspective, the editor, a noted ethnohistorian, brings to light major developments in the Native American experience over the last thirty years. Overcoming hardships they have experienced as a forgotten minority, often torn between two cultures, these Native writers, artists,...

A chronological compilation of both famous and unfamiliar Indian speeches from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries.

An annotated bibliography of novel-length fictional works by and about Native Americans, written from the Native American perspective, and published between the 1890s and the 1990s. Material from genres including contemporary fiction, westerns, romances, mysteries, science fiction, and young adult fiction of interest to adults is included. Synopses organized alphabetically by author's name identify time period, location, and tribal band associated...

New Voices in Native American Literary Criticism brings together more than twenty Native American and non-Native American critics working in the United States and abroad to explore the oral and textual expressions of Native Americans past and present. Many of the contributors represent a new generation of literary criticism: younger scholars and experts in the field who have not, for the most part, been published widely. The essays discuss Inuit writing,...

Native American literature explores divides between public and private cultures, ethnicities and experience. In this volume, the author argues that Native American writers use diverse narrative strategies to engage with readers and are 'writing for connection' with both Native and non-Native audiences. Beginning with a historical overview of Native American literature, this book presents focused readings of key texts including: N. Scott Momaday's...

"Speak Like Singing focuses on early books of poetry and prose by select Native writers showcasing the distinct voices and tribal diversities of living Indians. Rather than scanning the new-day horizon, as in Native American Renaissance three decades ago, this study focuses on carefully chosen paradigms in working daylight." "This is not a book about bygone ethnoliteracies in other tongues and times. Speak Like Singing offers a cross-cultural study...

Includes Indian tribes index and subject keyword index.

"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...

Invisible, marginal, expected - these words trace the path of recognition for American Indian literature written in English since the late eighteenth century. This Companion chronicles and celebrates that trajectory by defining relevant institutional, historical, cultural, and gender contexts, by outlining the variety of genres written since the 1770s, and also by focusing on significant authors who established a place for Native literature in literary...