The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico

by James H. Cox

Book Overview

The forty years of American Indian literature taken up by James H. Cox--the decades between 1920 and 1960--have been called politically and intellectually moribund. On the contrary, Cox identifies a group of American Indian writers who share an interest in the revolutionary potential of the indigenous peoples of Mexico--and whose work demonstrates a surprisingly assertive literary politics in the era.

By contextualizing this group of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816675988
• ISBN13: 9780816675982
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.4"