Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to date.

About the author

James H. Cox is Associate Professor of English and the co-founder of Native American and Indigenous Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee) is Canada Research Chair of Indigenous Literatures and Expressive Culture and Associate Professor of First Nations Studies and English at the University of British Columbia.

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Indigenous American Literature is the most comprehensive and expansive critical handbook of Indigenous American literatures published to date.

Additional text

Full of humour and things Indian that are not usually given prominence an exceptional achievement it puts another nail in the coffin of the persistent fantasy that real Indians and their traditions have vanished east of the Mississippi, the region where colonization happened earliest.

Product details

• Authors: James H. (Associate Professor of English Cox, James H. Justice Cox
• Assisted by: James H. Cox (Editor), James H. (Associate Professor of English Cox (Editor), Cox James H. (Editor), Daniel Heath Justice (Editor), Daniel Heath (Associate Professor of First Nations Studies and English Justice (Editor), Justice Daniel Heath (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.09.2014
• EAN: 9780199914036
• ISBN: 978-0-19-991403-6
• No. of pages: 768
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Ethnic Studies, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: general, History of the Americas, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity