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This digital document is an article from The Mississippi Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2004. The length of the article is 1015 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: When Brer Rabbit Meets Coyote: African-Native American Literature.(Book Review)
Author: Dean Franco
Publication: The Mississippi Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 57Issue: 4Page: 679(3)

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Finally, there's a guide to children's books by Native American writers. This unique source book covers titles in print for fiction, folklore, drama, poetry, and nonfiction, complete with ISBNs, subject headings, reviews, awards, authors, and illustrators. A handy resources section steers readers to useful websites and organizations, while a chapter on publishers lists contact information. A thorough index includes tribes and translators.

· Enrich the learning process with multicultural literature

· Identify and locate hard-to-find resources by Native American authors

· An invaluable selection aid for public and K-12 librarians

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A handy index rounds out this useful guide
Compiled and arranged by Sherry York, Children's And Young Adult Literature By Native Americans is a resource guide developed especially for children's librarians, and lists quality books recommended for young readers which are by and about Native Americans. Each individual entry is mentioned with information concerning the title, author, publisher, a brief summary, general subjects covered, recommended interest and reading levels, a list of places in which reviews about this book are to be found, and more. A handy index rounds out this useful guide. Children's And Young Adult Literature By Native Americans is a highly recommended addition to both Library Science and Native American Studies reference collections. ... Read more

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Romantic Indians considers the views that Britons, colonists, and North American Indians took of each other during a period in which these people were in a closer and more fateful relationship than ever before or since. It is, therefore, also a book about exploration, empire, and the forms of writing that exploration and empire gave rise to--in particular the form we have come to call Romanticism. Among the authors discussed are Wordsworth, Hemans, Coleridge, and the Native Americans Copway, Tanner, and Norton. ... Read more

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perceptive and useful
"Romantic Indians" is a perceptive and useful critical text. Native Americans, as noble, savage, uncanny figures, were of considerable importance to writers such as Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, yet this aspect of British Romantic literary culture has been rarely discussed. Tim Fulford does so with subtlety and intelligence, reavealing the complex cultural feedback whereby travel accounts of Indians were used by British writers, whose fictions were then recycled back to the frontier. The analysis of Southey's "Indian Songs" and his epic "Madoc" are especially welcome, as Southey has received little critical attention hitherto. The discussion of Native American writers in the third section of the book covers indigenous literary responses to Anglo-American discourses by writers such as Edward Norton/Teyoninhokarawen, William Apess, George Copway/Kah-ge-ga-gah-bowh etc, and forms a useful supplement to discussions by, e.g., Helen Carr. ... Read more

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FOR NATIVE AMERICANS AND ALL AMERICANS
With a touching and eloquent preface by the last living grandson of Joseph Nicolar, of the Penobscot tribe, whose original text dates from the 1890s, and with a brilliant and comprehensive introduction by the author, Annette Kolodny, this work will be a classic for anyone wanting to understand Native Americans. And not just that. The work and its introduction give us the deepest possible sense of alternative approaches to land, tradition, animals and humans, including a prophecy that white men will destroy themselves, essentially by destroying the environment. No one should miss this extraordinary book!

Mary Felstiner
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San Francisco State University
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Make classroom lessons come alive through inspiring works of literature.These comprehensive resources include book summaries, connecting activities, reproducible student pages and bibliographies. ... Read more

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American Ethnic Literatures provides a guide to the range of creative and scholarly work in four major American ethnic literatures. It is a bibliography where teachers and students alike can find listings of the major primary literatures in the four ethnic groups, plus the most important secondary criticism of those literatures, including background sources. ... Read more

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An old Indian woman comforts two young white children she finds lost in the woods and lovingly carries them back to their eager parents. A frontiersman sheds tears over the grave of a Mohican youth, holding hands with the mourning father.According to Laura L. Mielke, such emotionally charged scenes between whites and Indians paradoxically flourished in American literature from 1820 to 1850, a time when the United States government developed and applied a policy of Indian removal. Although these "moving encounters," as Mielke terms them, often promoted the possibility of mutual sympathy between Native Americans and Euro-Americans, they also suggested that these emotional links were inherently unstable, potentially dangerous, and ultimately doomed. At the same time, the emphasis on Indian-white sympathy provided an opportunity for Indians and non-Native activists to voice an alternative to removal and acculturation, turning the language of a sentimental U.S. culture against its own imperial impulse.Mielke details not only how such writers as James Fenimore Cooper and Henry Rowe Schoolcraft forecast the inevitable demise of Indian-white sympathy, but also how authors like Lydia Maria Child and William Apess insisted that a language of feeling could be used to create shared community or defend American Indian sovereignty.In this way, "Moving Encounters" sheds new light on a wide range of texts concerning the "Indian Question" by emphasizing their engagement with popular sentimental forms and by challenging the commonly held belief that all Euro-American expressions of sympathy for American Indians in this period were fundamentally insincere. While portraits of Indian-white sympathy often prompted cynical rejoinders from parodists, many never lost faith in the power of emotion to overcome the greed and prejudice fueling the dispossession of American Indians. ... Read more

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just what the field needs
This a careful, detailed, judicious study of the question of sympathy in antebellum US literature, as it relates to writing about Native Americans. While not ignoring the issue of complicity, "Moving Encounters" refreshingly does not dismiss all white writing about Native Americans as cynical or duplicitous, in the manner of much standard poco literary criticism. The chapters on Thoreau and Fuller, on Catlin and the Schoolcrafts, and on "Indian" melodramas are especially interesting.

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on June 22, 1994. The length of the article is 489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse on Native American Indian Literatures.
Author: Greg Sanchez
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 1994
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: v68Issue: n3Page: p615(1)

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This digital document is an article from American Scholar, published by Thomson Gale on January 1, 2007. The length of the article is 3810 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Going native: when American literature became good enough for Americans, what happened to the literary canon?(Viewpoint essay)
Author: Morris Dickstein
Publication: American Scholar (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 76Issue: 1Page: 150(6)

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