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Writing Indian, Native Conversations
John Lloyd Purdy
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Description for Writing Indian, Native Conversations
Hardback. An assessment of Native American fiction and criticism. It brings the traditions of Native American fiction into conversation with ideas about the past, present and future of Native literatures. Num Pages: 302 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 2AB; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 225 x 149 x 28. Weight in Grams: 518.
Since N. Scott Momaday’s 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn brought Native American fiction squarely into mainstream culture, the genre has expanded in different ways and in new directions. The result is a Native American–written literature that requires a variety of critical approaches, including a discussion of how this canon differs from the familiar, established canons of American literature. Drawing on personal experience as well as literary scholarship, John Lloyd Purdy brings the traditions of Native American fiction into conversation with ideas about the past, present, and future of Native literatures. By revisiting some of the classics of the ... Read more
Since N. Scott Momaday’s 1969 Pulitzer Prize for House Made of Dawn brought Native American fiction squarely into mainstream culture, the genre has expanded in different ways and in new directions. The result is a Native American–written literature that requires a variety of critical approaches, including a discussion of how this canon differs from the familiar, established canons of American literature. Drawing on personal experience as well as literary scholarship, John Lloyd Purdy brings the traditions of Native American fiction into conversation with ideas about the past, present, and future of Native literatures. By revisiting some of the classics of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
Number of Pages
302
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803222878
SKU
V9780803222878
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About John Lloyd Purdy
John Lloyd Purdy is a professor of English at Western Washington University. He is the coeditor of Nothing but the Truth: An Anthology of Native American Literature and the author of Word Ways: The Novels of D’Arcy McNickle.
Reviews for Writing Indian, Native Conversations
"[Purdy] provides an interesting balance of historical and contemporary intellectual reflections."—W. M. Wynn, CHOICE "Writing Indian, Native Conversations contributes to the critical discourse in Native American literature."—Geraldine Mendoza, Great Plains Quarterly