Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans
The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History challenges
conventional views of the past one hundred years of Native American
writing, bringing Native American Renaissance and post-Renaissance
writers into conversation with their predecessors. Addressing the
political positions such writers have adopted, explored, and
debated in their work, James H. Cox counters what he considers a
"flattening" of the politics of American Indian literary expression
and sets forth a new method of reading Native literature in a
vexingly politicized context. Examining both canonical and
lesser-known writers, Cox proposes that scholars approach these
texts as "political arrays": confounding but also generative
collisions of conservative, moderate, and progressive ideas that
together constitute the rich political landscape of American Indian
literary history. Reviewing a broad range of genres including
journalism, short fiction, drama, screenplays, personal letters,
and detective fiction-by Lynn Riggs, Will Rogers, Sherman Alexie,
Thomas King, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Winona LaDuke,
Carole laFavor, and N. Scott Momaday-he demonstrates that Native
texts resist efforts to be read as advocating a particular set of
politics Meticulously researched, The Political Arrays of American
Indian Literary History represents a compelling case for
reconceptualizing the Native American Renaissance as a
literary-historical constellation. By focusing on post-1968 Native
writers and texts, argues Cox, critics have often missed how
earlier writers were similarly entangled, hopeful, frustrated,
contradictory, and unpredictable in their political engagements.
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