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Diane Glancy is one of the outstanding Native American authors of
modern times. Working in multiple genres - poetry, novel, theatre
and nonfiction - she has created a vast, ceaselessly provocative
oeuvre (more than 35 volumes) and an instantly recognizable voice.
Her subject matter is astonishingly diverse, encompassing
everything from the Cherokee Trail of Tears to the New Testament
character of Dorcas, from the lives of small-town Midwestern women
to the joys of classic automobiles, from grade school maskmaking to
the recuperation of personal heritage in the archives.The essays in
this groundbreaking volume represent the first attempt to
systematically survey this challenging writer. Ten outstanding
scholars approach her work, mapping out controversies and providing
readers of Glancy with various contexts and comparisons through
which to understand her ideas. These chapters take a variety of
ideological and methodological positions (feminist, Christian,
postcolonial, literary-nationalist and more), the better to draw
out the complexities of a writer whose work never lets the reader
come to easy conclusions. Also included are an original interview
with Glancy herself, a survey of previous criticism and a
bibliography of her writings. This volume will therefore serve
equally well as an introduction to Glancy for newcomers and as an
in-depth survey for people already familiar with her work.The Salt
Companion to Diane Glancy is part of a unique series of companion
volumes to Native American poets. Previous subjects include Carter
Revard and Jim Barnes.
For many years the novelist William Gaddis, despite having won two
National Book Critics Circle Awards and a MacArthur Foundation's
'genius award', suffered from commercial and critical neglect.
However, Gaddis has more recently experienced a resurgence in his
popularity among both groups and is now considered one of the
strongest American novelists. This collection of essays explores
the interrelation between Gaddis' writing and the culture that
helped to engender it. The essays cover such topics as technique,
genre, religion, art, economics, colonialism and the role played by
Gaddis' own travels through Europe and North Africa.
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