Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak

by Laura Coltelli

Book Overview

In Winged Words Laura Coltelli interviews some of America's foremost Indian poets and novelists, including Paula Gunn Allen, Michael Dorris, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Wendy Rose, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor; and James Welch. They candidly discuss the debt to old and the creation of new traditions, the proprieties of age and gender; and the relations between Indian writers and non-Indian readers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803214456
• ISBN13: 9780803214453
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 211 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.