The Routledge introduction to native American literature:

This Introduction makes available for both student, instructor, and affcianado a refined set of tools for decolonizing our approaches prior to entering the unfamiliar landscape of Native American literatures. This book will introduce indigenous perspectives and traditions as articulated by indigenou...

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Main Author: Lopenzina, Drew 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
Series:Routledge introductions to American literature
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Online Access:UBW01
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Summary:This Introduction makes available for both student, instructor, and affcianado a refined set of tools for decolonizing our approaches prior to entering the unfamiliar landscape of Native American literatures. This book will introduce indigenous perspectives and traditions as articulated by indigenous authors whose voices have been a vital, if often overlooked, component of the American dialogue formore than400 years. Paramount to this consideration of Native-centered reading is the understanding that literature was not something bestowed upon Native peoples by the settler culture, either through benevolent interventions or violent programs of forced assimilation. Native literature precedes colonization, and Native stories and traditions have their roots in both the precolonized and the decolonizing worlds. As this far-reaching survey of Native literary contributions will demostrate, almost without fail, when indigenous writers elected to enter into the world of western letters, they did so with the intention of maintaining indigenous culture and community. Writing was and always remains a strategy for survival
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 199 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781315209722
DOI:10.4324/9781315209722

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