Krupat: For Those Who Come After: Study of Native American Autobiography - Hardcover

Krupat

 
9780520053076: Krupat: For Those Who Come After: Study of Native American Autobiography

Synopsis

Drawing on the life stories of Native Americans solicited by historians during the 19th century and, later, by anthropologists concerned with amplifying the cultural record, Arnold Krupat examines the Indian autobiography as a specific genre of American writing.

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Review

"Given the attractions of autobiographical materials for any student of history, we must welcome Arnold Krupat's reading of several important Native American autobiographies."--Christine Bolt, "Notes & Queries

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For Those Who Come After seems indeed to be quite a specialized book, a study of texts concerning a marginalized people, texts themselves marginalized (at least until recently) by their exclusion from the canon of American literature traditionally taught in the United States.

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ISBN 10:  0520066065 ISBN 13:  9780520066069
Publisher: University of California Press, 1989
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