Author : Melanie Benson Taylor
Release : 2020-09-17
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The Cambridge History of Native American Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Native American Literature write by Melanie Benson Taylor. This book was released on 2020-09-17. The Cambridge History of Native American Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Native American literature has always been uniquely embattled. It is marked by divergent opinions about what constitutes authenticity, sovereignty, and even literature. It announces a culture beset by paradox: simultaneously primordial and postmodern; oral and inscribed; outmoded and novel. Its texts are a site of political struggle, shifting to meet external and internal expectations. This Cambridge History endeavors to capture and question the contested character of Indigenous texts and the way they are evaluated. It delineates significant periods of literary and cultural development in four sections: “Traces & Removals” (pre-1870s); “Assimilation and Modernity” (1879-1967); “Native American Renaissance” (post-1960s); and “Visions & Revisions” (21st century). These rubrics highlight how Native literatures have evolved alongside major transitions in federal policy toward the Indian, and via contact with broader cultural phenomena such, as the American Civil Rights movement. There is a balance between a history of canonical authors and traditions, introducing less-studied works and themes, and foregrounding critical discussions, approaches, and controversies.