Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945

Name: Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945
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ISBN: 9780231117647

ISBN-10: 0231117647

ISBN-13: 9780231117647

Edition: 2006

Authors: Eric Cheyfitz

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The Columbia Guide to American Indian Literatures of the United States Since 1945 is the first major volume of its kind to focus on Native literatures in a postcolonial context. Written by a team of noted Native and non-Native scholars, these essays 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. In his essay comprising part I of the volume, Eric Cheyfitz argues persuasively for the necessary conjunction of Indian literatures and federal Indian law from Apess to Alexie. Part II is a comprehensive survey of five genres of…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 4/4/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 448
Size: 0.70" wide x 1.04" long x 0.13" tall
Weight: 2.266
Language: English

Eric Cheyfitz is Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters at Cornell University. He is the author of The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization fromThe Tempest toTarzan.



Editor's Introduction





The (Post)Colonial Construction of Indian Country: U.S. American Indian Literatures and Federal Indian Law







American Indian Fiction and Anticolonial Resistance




Cannons and Canonization: American Indian Poetries Through Autonomy, Colonization, Nationalism, and Decolonization




American Indian Drama and the Politics of Performance




Sovereignty and the Struggle for Representation in American Indian Nonfiction




Imagining Self and Community in American Indian Autobiography



Contributors


Index