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Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
Robert Dale Parker
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Description for Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
Paperback. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the history of American Indian literature and American poetry by uncovering a vast but forgotten archive of early American Indian poems. The book includes work by 82 writers and a full bibliography of poems by more than 140 Indian writers who wrote before 1930. Editor(s): Parker, Robert Dale. Num Pages: 456 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCQ; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 748.
Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the early history of American Indian literature and the history of American poetry by presenting a vast but forgotten archive of American Indian poems. Through extensive archival research in small-circulation newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, pamphlets, rare books, and scrapbooks, Robert Dale Parker has uncovered the work of more than 140 early Indian poets who wrote before 1930. Changing Is Not Vanishing ... Read more
Until now, the study of American Indian literature has tended to concentrate on contemporary writing. Although the field has grown rapidly, early works-especially poetry-remain mostly unknown and inaccessible. Changing Is Not Vanishing simultaneously reinvents the early history of American Indian literature and the history of American poetry by presenting a vast but forgotten archive of American Indian poems. Through extensive archival research in small-circulation newspapers and magazines, manuscripts, pamphlets, rare books, and scrapbooks, Robert Dale Parker has uncovered the work of more than 140 early Indian poets who wrote before 1930. Changing Is Not Vanishing ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
747g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222180
SKU
V9780812222180
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About Robert Dale Parker
Robert Dale Parker is James M. Benson Professor in English and Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois. He is the editor of The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The Writings of Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Reviews for Changing Is Not Vanishing: A Collection of American Indian Poetry to 1930
An excellent book, uniquely recovering materials of great importance in the field. The scholarship and research are exemplary and impressive: I learned a lot from it and was happy to learn it. -Carter Revard, Washington University in St. Louis A remarkably rich and dense collection of poems. . . . Overall, the collection brings together the work of more ... Read more