| Native-American Writers is one of the titles in Bloom's Modern Critical Views series from Chelsea House. This edited volume contains 18 scholarly essays about Native American writing by well-known authors such as Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Gerald Vizenor, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Louis Owens, and D'Arcy McNickle. Themes found in the critical essays include Native women, humour, cultural survival, autobiographical writing, and trickster narratives. The editor provides a helpful introduction with brief summaries of the thesis of each criticism, a chronology of Native American writing events, bibliography, and index. |
