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The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction
Robert Warrior
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Description for The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction
Paperback. Series: Indigenous Americas. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 halftones, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1KB; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 376.
Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture.
Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Warrior begins by tracing a history of American Indian writing from the eighteenth ... Read more
Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture.
Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents, The People and the Word explores how the Native tradition of nonfiction has both encompassed and dissected Native experiences. Warrior begins by tracing a history of American Indian writing from the eighteenth ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Indigenous Americas
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816646173
SKU
V9780816646173
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About Robert Warrior
Robert Warrior is professor of English and Native American studies at the University of Oklahoma. He is author of Tribal Secrets: Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions (Minnesota, 1994) and coauthor, with Paul Chaat Smith, of Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee.
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