Native American literature underwent a Renaissance around 1968. This book offers an approach to contemporary Native American literature. It provides a grounding in the subject for those with an interest in American and twentieth century literature more generally.
"Native American Literature considers a selection of post-war novels by Native American writers, including well known, canonical works such as Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, as well as lesser known but equally enjoyable texts, such as Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing of Ceceli…
"Native American Literature considers a selection of post-war novels by Native American writers, including well known, canonical works such as Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony, as well as lesser known but equally enjoyable texts, such as Janet Campbell Hale's The Jailing of Ceceli…
Considering Native American literature within a modernist framework, and comparing it with writers such as Woolf, Stein, T.S Eliot and Proust results in a valuable and enriching context for the selected texts.