Over the last twenty years, Native American literary studies has
taken a sharp political turn. In this book, Matthew Herman provides
the historical framework for this shift and examines the key
moments in the movement away from cultural analyses toward more
politically inflected and motivated perspectives. He highlights
such notable cases as the prevailing readings of the popular within
Native American writing; the Silko-Erdrich controversy; the ongoing
debate over the comparative value of nationalism versus
cosmopolitanism within Native American literature and politics; and
the status of native nationalism in relation to recent critiques of
the nation coming from postmodernism, postcolonialism, and
subaltern studies. Herman concludes that the central problematic
defining the last two decades of Native American literary studies
has involved the emergence in theory of anti-colonial nationalism,
its variants, and its contradictions. This study will be a
necessary addition for students and scholars of Native American
Studies as well as 20th-century literature.
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