Conversations with LeAnne Howe is the first collection of
interviews with the groundbreaking Choctaw author, whose
genre-bending works take place in the US Southeast, Oklahoma, and
beyond our national borders to bring Native American characters and
themes to the global stage. Best known for her American Book
Award-winning novel Shell Shaker (2001), LeAnne Howe (b. 1951) is
also a poet, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, theorist, and
humorist. She has held numerous honors including a Fulbright
Distinguished Scholarship in Amman, Jordan, from 2010 to 2011, and
she was the recipient of the Modern Language Association's first
Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and
Languages for her travelogue, Choctalking on Other Realities
(2013). Spanning the period from 2002 to 2020, the interviews in
this collection delve deeply into Howe's poetics, her innovative
critical methodology of tribalography, her personal history, and
her position on subjects ranging from the Lone Ranger to Native
American mascots. Two previously unpublished interviews, "'An
American in New York': LeAnne Howe" (2019) and "Genre-Sliding on
Stage with LeAnne Howe" (2020), explore unexamined areas of her
personal history and how it impacted her creative work, including
childhood trauma and her incubation as a playwright in the 1980s.
These conversations along with 2019's Occult Poetry Radio interview
also give important insights on the background of Howe's newest
critically acclaimed work, Savage Conversations (2019), about Mary
Todd Lincoln's hallucination of a "Savage Indian" during her time
in Bellevue Place sanitarium. Taken as a whole, Conversations with
LeAnne Howe showcases the development and continued impact of one
of the most important Indigenous American writers of the
twenty-first century.
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