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The Oxford handbook of indigenous American literature / edited by James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice.

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Oxford University Press, c2014.

American literature -- Indian authors -- History and criticism.

First Nations literature -- History and criticism.

Indians of North America -- Intellectual life.

First Nations -- Intellectual life.

Indians in literature.

First Nations in literature.

Oxford handbooks.

9780199914036 (2014 hc.)

9780190086251 (2019 pbk.)

Alternate title:

Handbook of indigenous American literature

Indigenous American literature

xxii, 741 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index

Post-Renaissance indigenous American literary studies / James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice -- The sovereign obscurity of Inuit literature / Keavy Martin -- At the crossroads of red/black literature / Kiara M. Vigil and Tiya Miles -- Ambivalence and contradiction in contemporary Maya literature from Yucatan: Jorge Cocom Pech's Muk'ult'am in Nool (=Grandfather's secrets) / Emilio del Valle Escalante -- Early native literature as social practice / Phillip H. Round -- Recovering Jane Schoolcraft's cultural activism in the nineteenth century / Maureen Konkle -- Hawaiian literature in Hawaiian: an overview / Noenoe K. Silva -- Metis identity and literature / Kristina Fagan Bidwell -- Queering indigenous pasts, or, temporalities of tradition and settlement / Mark Rifkin -- Singing forwards and backwards: ancestral and contemporary Chamorro poetics / Craig Santos Perez -- Indigenous orality and oral literatures / Christopher B. Teuton -- Megwa Baabaamiiaayaayaang Dibaajomoyaang: Anishinabe literature as memory in motion / Margaret Noodin -- Indigenous nonfiction / Robert Warrior -- Toward a Native American women's autobiographical tradition: genre as political practice / Crystal M. Kurzen -- Ixtlamatililiztli (=knowledge with the face): intellectual migrations and colonial displacements in Natalio Hernández's Xochikoskatl / Adam W. Coon -- "Our leaves of paper will be/Dancing lightly": indigenous poetics / Sophie Mayer -- The story of movement: natives and performance culture / LeAnne Howe -- Published Native American drama, 1970-2011 / Alexander Pettit -- Indigenous American cinema / Denise K. Cummings -- Reading the visual-seeing the verbal: text and image in recent American Indian literature and art / Dean Rader -- The indigenous novel / Sean Kicummah Teuton -- Indigenous children's literature / Loriene Roy -- Red dead conventions: American Indian transgeneric fictions / Jodi A. Byrd -- Contested images, contested lands: the politics of space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred water / Shari M. Huhndorf -- Decolonizing comparison: towards a trans-indigenous literary studies / Chadwick Allen -- Indigenous trans/nationalism and the ethics of theory in native literary studies / Joseph Bauerkemper -- Beyond continuance: criticism of indigenous literatures in Canada / Sam McKegney -- All that is native and fine: teaching Native American literature / Frances Washburn -- Teaching native literature responsibly in a multiethnic course / Channette Romero -- Between "colonizer-perpetrator" and "colonizer-ally": toward a pedagogy of redress / Renate Eigenbrod -- Vine Deloria, Jr. and the spacemen / Craig Womack -- A basket is a basket, because ... : telling a native rhetorics story / Malea Powell -- New tribalism and Chicana/o indigeneity in the work of Gloria Anzaldúa / Domino Renee Perez -- Literature and the red Atlantic / Jace Weaver -- The re/presentation of the indigenous Caribbean in literature / Shona N. Jackson -- Writing and lasting: native Northeastern literary history / Lisa Brooks -- Decolonizing indigenous oratures and literatures of northern British North America and Canada (beginnings to 1960) / Margery Fee -- Indigenous literature and other verbal arts, Canada (1960-2012) / Warren Cariou -- Amerika Samoa: writing home / Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard -- Native literatures of Alaska / James Ruppert -- The Popol Wuj and the birth of Mayan literature / Thomas Ward -- Keeping Oklahoma Indian Territory: Alice Callahan and John Oskison (Indian enough) / Joshua B. Nelson -- Francophone aboriginal literature in Quebec / Sarah Henzi -- Ika ʻŌlelo ke Ola, in words is life: imagining the future of indigenous literatures / Kuʻualoha Hoʻomonawanui

Over the course of the last twenty years, Native American and Indigenous American literary studies has experienced a dramatic shift from a critical focus on identity and authenticity to the intellectual, cultural, political, historical, and tribal nation contexts from which these Indigenous literatures emerge. This book reflects on these changes and provides an overview of the current state of the field. The forty-three essays, organized into four sections, cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, and other forms of Indigenous American writing from the seventeenth through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to literary histories across a range of communities, providing, for example, analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Métis literary practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and historical contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss Indigenous non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography, Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada, and even a new Indigenous children's literature canon. The third section delves into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to expound on politics of place, comparative Indigenism, trans-Indigenism, Native rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous writing to communities of readers. A final section thoroughly explores the geographical breadth and expanded definition of Indigenous American through detailed accounts of literature from Indian Territory, the Red Atlantic, the far North, Yucatán, Amerika Samoa, and Francophone Quebec. This volume is a comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures. It addresses the diverse range of texts, secondary archives, writing traditions, literary histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical discourses in the field.

Cox, James H. (James Howard), 1968-

Justice, Daniel Heath

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