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18 - Reservation Realities and Myths in American Literary History

from Part III - Native American Renaissance (Post-1960s)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
David Treuer
Edited by
Melanie Benson Taylor
Melanie Benson Taylor
Affiliation:
Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
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Summary

"Reservation Realities" takes a look at the ways in which treaty process and product inflect and in turn are inflected by popular (and tribal) myths about American Indian life present in canonical American fiction (Melville, Hawthorne, et al) as well as in the "renaissance" of American Indian literature (Welch, Silko, Momaday).

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sovereigntysufferingIndian Appropriations ActsmythpoeticsAmerican literatureAmerican Indian fiction
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The Cambridge History of Native American Literature , pp. 349 - 364
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Melville, Herman. 1850. “Hawthorne and His Mosses.” http://people.virginia.edu/~sfr/enam315/hmmosses.html (accessed April 18, 2018).
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Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe. 1853. Historical and Statistical Information, respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States. Vol. II. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Company.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. 1977. Ceremony. New York: Penguin.
Welch, James. 1974. Winter in the Blood. New York: Harper & Row.
Welch, James. 1979. The Death of Jim Loney. New York: Harper & Row.

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