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Contemporary Native American Literature by Rebecca Tillett is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Contemporary Native American Literature about?

This introduction to contemporary Native American literature is suitable for students with little or no knowledge of the subject, or of Native American culture or history. It examines influential texts in the context of the historical moment of their production, with reference to significant literary developments. Most importantly, Native literature is assessed within the wider socio-political context of American colonialism, the history of Federal-Indian relations and policies, popular perceptions of 'Indians', and contemporary Native economic, social, and political realities. A survey of early Native literature provides the framework for considering the development of Native writings throughout the twentieth century. Focusing primarily upon late twentieth-century writings, the study begins with the moment that is widely defined as marking the 'renaissance' of contemporary Native American literature: the awarding of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize to the Kiowa writer N. Scott Momaday for his novel __House Made of Dawn__. The subsequent analysis of key writers and texts includes a biography and brief bibliographical survey of each writer's work, with a detailed analysis of one text conside

Who reads Contemporary Native American Literature?

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Rebecca Tillett
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781474473262
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
History, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

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