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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

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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Print publication year: 2020

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