The Invention of Native American Literature
Cornell University Press · Hardcover · December 9, 2002
In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form.
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- Who it’s for
- Parker reframes Native literary history through gender, form, orality, and authority.
- Themes
- Native American literary history, Gender and masculinity, Orality and authority
- Genres
- Indigenous Lit Crit
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In an original, widely researched, and accessibly written book, Robert Dale Parker helps redefine the study of Native American literature by focusing on issues of gender and literary form. Among the writers Parker highlights are Thomas King, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ray A. Young Bear, some of whom have previously received little scholarly attention.
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Parker proposes a new history of Native American literature by reinterpreting its concerns with poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority. He also addresses representations of Indian masculinity, uncovering Native literature's recurring fascination with restless young men who have nothing to do, or who suspect or feel pressured to believe that they have nothing to do. The Invention of Native American Literature reads Native writing through a wide variety of shifting historical contexts. In its commitment to historicizing Native writing and identity, Parker's work parallels developments in scholarship on other minority literatures and is sure to provoke controversy.
Gender and Literary Form
Parker reframes Native literary history through gender, form, orality, and authority.
Come here for
- Reinterpretations of poetry, orality, and Indian notions of authority
- Readings of Thomas King, Leslie Marmon Silko, and other writers
Expect
- Native writing read across shifting historical contexts
- Representations of masculinity and restless young men without purpose
Where it sits
| Indigenous Lit Crit | 97% |
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Publisher categories
- Native American History
- Indigenous Lit Crit
- Native American Studies
- Authors
- Robert Dale Parker
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- December 9, 2002
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Native American literary history · Gender and masculinity · Orality and authority
- Reading lane
- Native American History