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Literary and Literary Criticism

Writing by Native Americans is growing. Authors now work in a wide variety of genres, from avant-garde belle-lettres to mystery fiction. These publications are collected, and some better-known authors include: Sherman Alexie, Tiana Bighorse, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Leslie Maron Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Anna Lee Walters, and James Welsh.

American Indian Literature: An Anthology. Revised edition by Alan R. Velie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991. *R-HBO 91-7504

American Indian Voices. Edited by Karen Harvey. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1995. HBC 96-10967

Bruchac, Joseph. Roots of Survival: Native American Storytelling and the Sacred. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Pub., 1996. HBC 98-2694

Bruchac, Joseph. Survival This Way: Interviews with American Indian Poets. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1987. JFM 82-1, v. 15

Dictionary of Native American Literature. Edited by Andrew Wiget. New York: Garland Publishing, 1994. *R – HBC 95-132

Growing Up Native American: An Anthology. Edited by Patricia Riley. New York: Morrow, 1993. HBC 93-8965

Native Wisdom. Edited by Joseph Bruchac. San Francisco: Harper:SanFrancisco, 1995. HBC 96-5532

The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature. Edited by Geary Hobson. Albuquerque: Red Earth Press, 1979. JFD 79-7088

Smoke Rising: The Native North American Literary Companion. Joseph Bruchac, editor. Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1995. HBC 95-10190

Spider Woman’s Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women. Edited by Paula Gunn Allen. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989. HBC 89-22989

Weaver, Jace. That The People Might Live: Native American Literatures and Native American Community. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. HBC 99-8482

 

Compiled by Paula A. Baxter, 2002