American Indian Literature: An Anthology - Hardcover

9780806123318: American Indian Literature: An Anthology

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806123311 ISBN 13: 9780806123318

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991

Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a large selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine and poetry by Paula Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a rich array of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor, and Maurice Kenny.

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Synopsis:

Along with the traditional, primarily oral, literature of tales, songs, memoirs, and oratory, this revised anthology offers a selection of poetry and fiction by American Indian women, including an excerpt from Louise Erdrich's "Love Medicine" and poetry by Paul Gunn Allen, Rayna Green, Joy Harjo, nila northSun, and others. There is also a range of works by contemporary Indian men from different regions, such as N.Scott Momaday, James Welch, Gerald Vizenor and Maurice Kenny. The editor has selected works representative of the variety of American Indian literature of different periods and regions, - from the prehistoric Delaware epic "Walam Olum" and the origin myth of the Acoma Pueblo, through the memoirs and oratory of the early contact period, to the songs and short stories of today's rural and urban Indians.

About the Author:

Alan R. Velie is David Ross Boyd Professor in the English Department at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of more than forty articles and three books and the editor of eight books, including the anthology American Indian Literature.

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