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 ...
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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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 291 p. American Indian Literature & Critical Studies (Hardcover). Audience: General/trade. 291pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed. Endnotes; biblio.; index.
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Fine in Fine jacket. First edition. 291pp. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Louis Owens is of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent. "The first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors."
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