The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction

by Robert Warrior

Book Overview

Much literary scholarship has been devoted to the flowering of Native American fiction and poetry in the mid-twentieth century. Yet, Robert Warrior argues, nonfiction has been the primary form used by American Indians in developing a relationship with the written word, one that reaches back much further in Native history and culture. Focusing on autobiographical writings and critical essays, as well as communally authored and political documents,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816646171
• ISBN13: 9780816646173
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.8"