ENGL 242: Introduction to Native American Literature: Literary Sources

In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts, this Companion includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American literature and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events.

A unique, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to the oral and written literatures of Native Americans. Divided into three major sections, Native American Oral Literatures, The Historical Emergence of Native American Writing, and A Native American Renaissance: 1967 to the Present, it includes essays written by scholars, reports on the oral traditions of various tribes, and topics such as the relation of the Bible, dreams, oratory, humor, autobiography, and federal land policies to Native American literature.

The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly.

Covers Native American poetry, fiction, and prose. This book offers more than 300 alphabetically arranged entries, divided into four types: individual authors, individual works, important characters in works, and terms or events of historical importance.

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. The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature reflects on these changes and provides a complete overview of the current state of the field.