The Invention of Native American Literature: A New Approach to Dealing with Hostile, Threatening, and Uncivil Behavior

by Robert Dale Parker

Book Overview

In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080144067X
• ISBN13: 9780801440670
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher