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This book offers students, writers, and serious fans a window into some of the most popular topics, styles and periods in this subject. Authors studied include N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, James Welch, Linda Hogan, Gerald Vizenor and Sherman Alexie.

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• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 What Are Native American Literatures?(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Timeline(p. 11)
• Chapter 3 How to Read Native American Literatures(p. 17)
• Chapter 4 The Best and the Best Known(p. 31)
• Chapter 5 Themes in Native American Literatures(p. 195)
• Chapter 6 Key Questions(p. 253)
• Chapter 7 Who Are the Major Critics in the Field, and What Are Their Arguments?(p. 277)
• Chapter 8 Selected Further Readings, Reference Works and Research Tools(p. 297)
• Chapter 9 Glossary(p. 305)
• Index(p. 311)

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A thoroughly accessible and illuminating collection of essays, this volume both introduces major critical and thematic questions and provides a brief overview of the best and best-known authors and works. The essays move from questions of definitions and method--what constitutes Native American literatures, how one should approach them--to a discussion of key theoretical arguments and an introduction to the critical discourse in the field. Lundquist is deft and well organized in her handling of the material, and she makes clear what literary critics do and how they do it. She covers a broad scope of material, and readers will find here not only the methodological tools they need to understand this diverse body of work but also a case study within the wider fields of literary and cultural studies. Lundquist concludes with a brief overview of research tools, further readings, and reference works, inviting readers into an active engagement not only with the literatures in question but also with their own scholarly pursuits. This is an excellent resource for Native American literature and for those new to literary criticism. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; general readers. E. Rodriguez y Gibson University of Redlands

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Suzanne Lundquist is Associate Professor in American Literature, Brigham Young University, USA.