The Columbia guide to American Indian literatures of the United States since 1945 / edited by Eric Cheyfitz. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2006. - x, 438 p. ; 27 cm. - The Columbia guides to literature since 1945 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The (post)colonial construction of Indian country: U.S. American Indian literatures and Federal Indian law / Eric Cheyfitz -- American Indian fiction and anticolonial resistance / Arnold Krupat and Michael A. Elliott -- Cannons and canonization: American Indian poetries through autonomy, colonization, nationalism, and decolonization / Kimberly M. Blaeser -- American Indian drama and the politics of performance / Shari Huhndorf -- Sovereignty and the struggle for representation in American Indian nonfiction / David Murray -- Imagining self and community in American Indian autobiography / Kendall Johnson.

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American literature--Indian authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Indians of North America--Intellectual life.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Indians in literature.

PS153.I52 / C573 2006

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