The Turn to the Native: Studies in Criticism and Culture

by Arnold Krupat

Book Overview

The Turn to the Native is a timely account of Native American literature and the critical writings that have grown up around it. Arnold Krupat considers racial and cultural "essentialism," the ambiguous position of non-Native critics in the field, cultural "sovereignty" and "property," and the place of Native American culture in a so-called multicultural era. Chapters follow on the relationship of Native American culture to postcolonial writing and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803277865
• ISBN13: 9780803277861
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"