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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature by James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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. The Handbook's forty-three essays, organized into four sections, cover oral traditions, poetry, drama, non-fiction, fiction, and other forms of Indigenous American writing from the seventeenth through the twenty-first century. Part I attends to literary histories across a range of communities, providing, for example, analyses of Inuit, Chicana/o, Anishinaabe, and Metis literary practices. Part II draws on earlier disciplinary and historical contexts to focus on specific genres, as authors discuss Indigenous non-fiction, emergent trans-Indigenous autobiography, Mexicanoh and Spanish poetry, Native drama in the U.S. and Canada, and even a new Indigenous children's literature canon. The third section delves into contemporary modes of critical inquiry to expound on politics of place, comparative Indigenism, trans-Indigenism, Native rhetoric, and the power of Indigenous writing to communities of readers. A final section thoroughly explores the geographical breadth and expanded definition of Indigenous American through detailed accounts of literature from Indian Territory, the Red Atlantic, the far North, Yucatan, Amerika Samoa, and Francophone Quebec. Together, the volume is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to date. It is the first to fully take into account the last twenty years of recovery and scholarship, and the first to most significantly address the diverse range of texts, secondary archives, writing traditions, literary histories, geographic and political contexts, and critical discourses in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature Reviews

Full of humor and things Indian that are not usually given prominence.... [A]n exceptional achievement.... [I[t puts another nail in the coffin of the persistent fantasy that 'real' Indians and their traditions have vanished east of the Mississippi, the region where colonization happened earliest. * The Times Literary Supplement *

About James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

James H. Cox is Associate Professor of English and the co-founder of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Literatures and Expressive Culture and Associate Professor of First Nations Studies and English at the University of British Columbia.

Introduction - Post-Renaissance Native American and Indigenous American Literary Studies, James H. Cox and Daniel H. Justice Part I - Histories 1. The Sovereign Obscurity of Inuit Literature, Keavy Martin 2. At the Crossroads of Red/Black Literature, Kiara Vigil and Tiya Miles 3. Ambivalence and Contradiction in Contemporary Maya Literature from Yucatan: Jorge Cocom Pech's Muk'ult'an in Nool [Grandfather's Secrets] Emilio Del Valle Escalante 4. Early Native Literature, U.S., Phillip Round 5. Nineteenth-Century Native Literature, Maureen Konkle 6. Hawaiian Literature in Hawaiian: An Overview, Noenoe K. Silvama 7. Metis Identity and Literature, Kristina Fagan Bidwell 8. Queering Indigenous Pasts, or Temporalities of Tradition and Settlement, Mark Rifkin 9. Singing Forwards and Backwards: Ancestral and Contemporary Chamorro Poetics, Craig Santos Perez 10. Indigenous Orality and Oral Literatures, Christopher Teuton 11. Anishinaabendamowaad Epichii Zhibiaamowaad: Anishinaabe Literature, Margaret Noodin Part II - Genres 12. Native Nonfiction, Robert Warrior 13. Towards a Native American Women's Autobiographical Tradition: Genre as Political Practice, Crystal Kurzen 14. Ixtlamatiliztli / Knowledge with the Face: Intellectual Migrations and Colonial Dis-placements in Natalio Hernandez's Xochikoskatl, Adam Coon 15. 'our leaves of paper will be / dancing lightly': Indigenous Poetics, Sophie Mayer 16. Natives and Performance Culture, LeAnne Howe 17. Published Native American Drama, 1980?2011, Alexander Pettit 18. Indigenous American Cinema, Denise K. Cummings 19. Reading the Visual, Seeing the Verbal: Text and Image in Recent American Indian Literature and Art, Dean Rader 20. The Indigenous Novel, Sean Kicummah Teuton 21. Indigenous Children's Literature, Loriene Roy 22. Red Dead Conventions: American Indian Transgenric Fictions, Jodi Byrd Part III - Methods 23. Contested Images, Contested Lands: The Politics of Space in Louise Erdrich's Tracks and Leslie Marmon Silko's Sacred Water Shari Huhndorf 24. Decolonizing Comparison: Towards a Trans-Indigenous Literary Studies, Chadwick Allen 25. Indigenous Trans/Nationalism and the Ethics of Theory in Native Literary Studies, Joseph Bauerkemper 26. Beyond Continuance: Criticism of Indigenous Literatures in Canada, Sam McKegney 27. All that is Native and Fine: Teaching Native American Literature, Frances Washburn 28. Teaching Native Literature in a Multi-Ethnic Classroom, Channette Romero 29. Between 'Colonizer-Perpetrator' and 'Colonizer-Ally': Towards a Pedagogy of Redress, Renate Eigenbrod 30. Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Spacemen, Craig Womack 31. A basket is a basket because...: telling a Native rhetorics story, Malea Powell 32. The Making and Remaking of the Mestiza: New Tribalism and the Expression of an Indigenous Identity in the Work of Gloria Anzaldua, Domino Renee Perez Part IV - Geographies 33. Literature and the Red Atlantic, Jace Weaver 34. The Re/Presentation of the Indigenous Caribbean in Literature, Shona Jackson 35. Writing and Lasting: Native Northeastern Literary History, Lisa Brooks 36. Decolonizing the Indigenous Oratures and Literatures of Northern British North America and Canada (Beginnings to 1960), Margery Fee 37. Indigenous Literature and Other Verbal Arts, Canada (1960-2012), Warren Cariou 38. Amerika Samoa: Writing Home, Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard 39. Native Literatures of Alaska, James Ruppert 40. The Popol Wuj and the Birth of Mayan Literature, Thomas Ward 41. Keeping Oklahoma Indian Territory: Alice Callahan and John Oskison (Indian Enough), Joshua B. Nelson 42. Francophone Aboriginal Literature in Quebec, Sarah Henzi Afterwords 43. I ka '?lelo ke Ola, in Words is Life: Imagining the Future of Indigenous Literatures, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui

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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature by James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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20200124

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Winner of James H. Cox and Daniel Heath Justice, recipients of the 2014-15 MLA Prize for Studies in Native American Literatures, Cultures, and Languages for The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature.

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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature by James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature by James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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About James H. Cox (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin)

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