Topic

American Indian Literature

NAME: JANKIBA K. RANA

PAPER NO: 8C

CULTURAL STUDIES

M.A. SEM – II ROLL NO: 09

YEAR 2014-2015

SUBMITTED TO:

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

MAHARAJA KRISHNAKUMARSINHJI

BHAVNAGAR

AMERICAN MULTICULTURALISM:

African American Writers

Latina writers

American Indian Literatures

Asian American writers

Culturalism:

Abridged Red Indians also called Americans Indian.

Their Tradition:

Oral Tradition

Folk Tradition

It get destroyed or get’s new tradition.

Over powering of whites means European

• And changes came into tribal tradition.

• Contribution to literature:

The earliest mainstream Indian author in the

anthologies is

Samson Occom,

A Mohegan School master, who published as

early as 1772.

• Later writers of the nineteenth and early twentieth

centuries, such as

– Yellow Bird

– Simon Pokagnon

– Sara Winnemucca Hopkins

– D’Arcy Mcnickle

– Mourning Dove

Dealt with native rights, the duplicates of U.S.

government and military leaders, racial ambivalence

creation myths, trickster human and tribal constancy in

face of repeated assaults.

• N.Scott “House made of Dawn”,

which had won the Pulitzer prize for

fiction in 1968 and his memoir, the way

to Rainy Mountain (1969) beginning a

renaissance of Indian fiction and poetry.

• James Welch’s Novel, “Winters in the

blood”.

• After that, it got more difficult.

• The anthology “The man to send Rain Clouds”

had been published in 1974. Several anthologies

of natives American poetry had also been

published in the early 70s “Voice of Rainbow”

carriers of the dream wheel and come to power,

many of the writers were dealing with the kinds of

issues of identity, social, political, cultural and

metaphysical that Silko’s book raisd.

• Louis Owens, a writer of “Choctaw

Cherokee” descent who is both a scholar of

native American literature and a novelist

himself, has asserted that prior to 1968 there

had only been 9 novels published by American

Indian writers, beginning in 1854

• Louise, Erdrich, Joy Harjo and others became

major literary figures, making little known but

historically rich sections of the country speak of

their Indian past and present.

• Erdrich’s novel “Love Medicine” – 1984

“The Best Queen” – 1986

“Tracks” – 1988

• Follow the fortunes of several North Dakota

Indian families in an epic unsparing in its satiric

revelations of their venality, libidinousness and

grotesquerie.

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