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This First Book-length Critical Analysis Of The Full Range Of Novels Written Between 1854 And Today By American Indian Authors Takes As Its Theme The Search For Self-discovery And Cultural Recovery. In His Introduction, Louis Owens Places The Novels In Context By Considering Their Relationships To Traditional American Indian Oral Literature As Well As Their Differences From Mainstream Euroamerican Literature. In The Following Chapters He Looks At The Novels Of John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, D'arcy Mcnickle, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, And Gerald Vizenor. These Authors Are Mixedbloods Who, In Their Writing, Try To Come To Terms With The Marginalization Both Of Mixed-bloods And Fullbloods And Of Their Cultures In American Society. Their Novels Are Complex And Sophisticated Narratives Of Cultural Survival--and Survival Guides For Fullbloods And Mixedbloods In Modern America.^ Rejecting The Stereotypes And Clichés Long Attached To The Word Indian, They Appropriate And Adapt The Colonizers Language, English, To Describe The Indian Experience. These Novels Embody The American Indian Point Of View; The Non-ind

Author

Louis Owens

Publisher

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780806124230

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities