Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and
Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic
shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the
intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation
contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. The Oxford
Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these
changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of
the field.
The Handbook's forty-three essays, organized into four sections,
cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, and
other forms of Indigenous American writing from the seventeenth
through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to literary
histories across a range of communities, providing, for example,
analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Metis literary
practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and historical
contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss Indigenous
non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography, Mexicanoh and
Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada, and even a new
Indigenous children's literature canon. The third section delves
into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to expound on politics
of place, comparative Indigenism, trans-Indigenism, Native
rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous writing to communities of
readers. A final section thoroughly explores the geographical
breadth and expanded definition of Indigenous American through
detailed accounts of literature from Indian Territory, the Red
Atlantic, the far North, Yucatan, Amerika Samoa, and Francophone
Quebec.
Together, the volume is the most comprehensive and expansive
critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to
date. It is the first to fully take into account the last twenty
years of recovery and scholarship, and the first to most
significantly address the diverse range of texts, secondary
archives, writing traditions, literary histories, geographic and
political contexts, and critical discourses in the field."
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