The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature

by Joshua David Bellin and Joshua David Bellin

Book Overview

In recent years, the study and teaching of Native American oral and written art have flourished. During the same period, there has been a growing recognition among historians, anthropologists, and ethnohistorians that Indians must be seen not as the voiceless, nameless, faceless Other but as people who had a powerful impact on the historical development of the United States. Literary critics, however, have continued to overlook Indians as determinants...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812217489
• ISBN13: 9780812217483
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"