| The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature Contributor(s): Porter, Joy (Editor), Roemer, Kenneth M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521822831 ISBN-13: 9780521822831 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $116.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2005 Annotation: This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural studies: literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day. In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts--Native and non-Native; American, British and European scholars--it includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Native American - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 810.989 |
| LCCN: 2005044298 |
| Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature |
| Physical Information: 1.09" H x 6.88" W x 9.18" (1.56 lbs) 368 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Contributor Bio(s): Porter, Joy: - Joy Porter is a lecturer in the Department of American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea, where she teaches a range of courses on American and Native American history and literature. She is the author of To Be Indian: The Life of Seneca-Iroquois Arthur Caswell Parker, 1881-1955 (2002). Her work on Indian themes can be found in a variety of journals and books such as New York History and The State of US History (Berg 2002). Previously she was Senior Lecturer in American History at Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, where she established a range of courses on Indian and American history. Her next book is Native American Freemasonry, the research for which was supported by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.Roemer, Kenneth M.: - Kenneth M. Roemer, an Academy of Distinguished Teachers Professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, has received four NEH grants to direct Summer seminars and has been a Visiting Professor in Japan, a guest lecturer at Harvard, and lectured in Vienna, Lisbon, Brazil, and Turkey. His articles have appeared in journals such as American Literature, American Literary History, and Modern Fiction Studies. His Approaches to Teaching Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain (ed.) was published by the MLA; his Native American Writers of the United States (ed.) won a Writer of Year Award from Wordcraft Circle. He has written four books on utopian literature, including The Obsolete Necessity and Utopian Audiences. His collection of personal narratives, verse, and photography about Japan is entitled Michibata de Deatta Nippon (A Sidewalker's Japan). |
