The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History
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The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History
By (Author) James H. Cox
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
2nd January 2020
1
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples
Social and cultural history
810.9897
Physical Properties
Hardback
272
Width 140mm, Height 216mm, Spine 38mm
Description
Bringing fresh insight to a century of writing by Native Americans The Political Arrays of American Indian Literary History challenges conventional views of the past one hundred years of Native American writing, bringing Native American Renaissance and post-Renaissance writers into conversation with their predecessors. Addressing the political
Reviews
"With his own array of historicist assiduity, keen sensitivity to contemporary issues, and a storytellers verve, James H. Cox uncovers the multitudes of political ambivalences that American Indian literature contains. He introduces a trove of unknown works and challenges us to make sense of them with our assumptions of whats requisite for Native political perspectives. As he compellingly demonstrates, thats a hard row to hoe."Joshua B. Nelson, author of Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture
"In this field-changing study, James H. Cox introduces the political array, a paradigm that allows him to demonstrate that Native texts and their authors are more politically complicatedmore nuanced, more situational, more dynamic and fluidthan our all too often reductive generalizations indicate. More, he makes visible previously understudied connections between pre- and post-1968 Native writers. Elegantly researched, wonderfully lucid, and truly essential."Eric G. Anderson, George Mason University
"Coxs monograph will prompt a variety of scholars to continue to add to and complicate what is an important and necessary endeavorto understand the complexities and contradictions that shape and are shaped by Indigenous literary history in the United States."Transmotion
"What Coxs text offers is a new paradigm from which to consider the study of American Indian literature, and for that alone he should be justly lauded."Tribal College
Author Bio
James H. Cox is Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Red Land to the South: American Indian Writers and Indigenous Mexico (Minnesota, 2012).
