The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945 / edited by Eric Cheyfitz.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The (post)colonial construction of Indian country: U.S. American Indian literatures and Federal Indian law / Eric Cheyfitz -- American Indian fiction and anticolonial resistance / Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott -- Cannons and canonization: American Indian poetries through autonomy, colonization, nationalism, and decolonization / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- American Indian drama and the politics of performance / Shari Huhndorf -- Sovereignty and the struggle for representation in American Indian nonfiction / David Murray -- Imagining self and community in American Indian autobiography / Kendall Johnson.

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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.

In English.

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