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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