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Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Mark Rifkin

American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 399–401.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2079206

Published: 01 June 2013

...Mark Rifkin Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature . By Rasmussen Birgit Brander . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2012 . xiv, 207 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause...

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Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich

James H. Cox

American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 716–718.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-9520264

Published: 01 December 2021

... literature have “two separate canons” (Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 7), Suhr-Sytsma’s and Hamilton’s books demonstrate this assertion’s powerful and enduring influence in Native American literary studies. Suhr-Sytsma contrasts mainstream, non-Native young adult fiction with Indigenous YA, which...

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The Invention of Native American Literature; Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

American Literature (2004) 76 (2): 405–407.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-2-405

Published: 01 June 2004

....: Cornell Univ. Press. 2002. xii, 244 pp. Paper, $18.95. Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts. By Chadwick Allen. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press. 2002. x, 308 pp. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $19.95. In The Invention of Native American Literature...

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Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

Andrea Smith

American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 661–663.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-6994967

Published: 01 September 2018

...-Determination . By Mark Rifkin . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2017 . xvii, 277 pp. Cloth , $99.95 ; paper, $25.95 ; e-book available. Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature . By David J. Carlson . Norman : Univ. of Oklahoma Press . 2016...

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Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Kelly Wisecup

American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 585–588.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616211

Published: 01 September 2020

... American literatures are. The books likewise model possible approaches to those archives, ranging from the conversations with tribal historians on which Brooks and Calcaterra rely to locate Native literatures in specific places and historical moments, to Rivett’s work to illuminate linguistic conversations...

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Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition

Kimberly Takahata

American Literature 11792419.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792419

Published: 07 March 2025

.... Stedman collects texts to expand on the second, witnessing a genealogy of European writings about Indigenous peoples to place himself and his discussions within a larger pattern of understanding UNCORRECTED PROOFS 374 American Literature Native communities. Indeed, Stedman likely did not see such movement...

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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History

Kyle Keeler

American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092045

Published: 01 March 2024

... environmental justice early American literature environmental humanities Native American and Indigenous studies legal studies In 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled that although the Oneida Nation of New York had purchased part of its ancestral homeland in the city of Sherrill, New York...

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Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

Jessica Bardill

American Literature (2016) 88 (1): 191–193.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3453732

Published: 01 March 2016

...Jessica Bardill Jessica Bardill is assistant professor of Native American literatures at East Carolina University. Alongside narratives, she examines the uses of genetics and genomics by and for Indigenous peoples. Her work engages the role of narrative medicine in wellness, ethical issues...

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A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley

Caroline Wigginton

American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 1–31.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8056576

Published: 01 March 2020

... Brooks, Round, and Teuton disrupts binaries—prehistorical/historical, object/book, oral/literate—that understand Native peoples to be latecomers to rather than founders of American literature. Observing how the land has been shaped with Indigenous peoples and bears marks of orientation adds...

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Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period the Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism on Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

Frank Kelderman

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 611–614.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717425

Published: 01 September 2014

... frameworks, offering new methods for tribally spe cific and global-comparative Native literary studies. American Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted...

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Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

Jennifer Brady

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 621–623.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717308

Published: 01 September 2014

... methods for tribally spe cific and global-comparative Native literary studies. American Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted to postcolonial theory...

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Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

Jennifer Glaser

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 625–628.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717326

Published: 01 September 2014

... colonial interpretive frameworks, offering new methods for tribally spe cific and global-comparative Native literary studies. American Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have...

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The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9/11

Jane Anna Gordon

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 633–636.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717353

Published: 01 September 2014

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The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

Emily J. Lordi

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 631–633.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717344

Published: 01 September 2014

... Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted to postcolonial theory and criticism, as is manifested in Drew Lopenzina’s Red Ink, a reexamination of seventeenth...

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The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song

Chris Forster

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 623–625.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717317

Published: 01 September 2014

.... American Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted to postcolonial theory and criticism, as is manifested in Drew Lopenzina’s Red Ink, a reexamination...

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Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

Christen Mucher

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 614–616.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717434

Published: 01 September 2014

... 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted to postcolonial theory and criticism, as is manifested in Drew Lopenzina’s Red Ink, a reexamination of seventeenth- and eighteenth...

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Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

William J. Maxwell

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 619–621.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717452

Published: 01 September 2014

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Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

Kevin R. McNamara

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 616–618.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717443

Published: 01 September 2014

... cific and global-comparative Native literary studies. American Literature, Volume 86, Number 3, September 2014 © 2014 by Duke University Press 612 American Literature Native American and indigenous literary studies have long been indebted to postcolonial theory and criticism...

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Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities

Cynthia Wu

American Literature (2014) 86 (3): 628–631.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2717335

Published: 01 September 2014

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Coyote Comes to the Norton : Indigenous Oral Narrative and American Literary History

Michael A. Elliott

American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 723–749.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-75-4-723

Published: 01 December 2003

...Michael A. Elliott Duke University Press 2003 Michael A. Coyote Comes to the Norton: Indigenous Oral Elliott Narrative and American Literary History 6986 AMERICAN LITERATURE / 75:4 / sheet 35 of 255 They intended to catch...

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Native American and Indigenous literature

Queequeg’s Coffin: Indigenous Literacies and Early American Literature Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750–1830

Self-Determined Stories: The Indigenous Reinvention of Young Adult Literature A New Continent of Liberty: Eunomia in Native American Literature from Occom to Erdrich

The Invention of Native American Literature; Blood Narrative: Indigenous Identity in American Indian and Maori Literary and Activist Texts

Native Women and Land: Narratives of Dispossession and Resurgence Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination Imagining Sovereignty: Self-Determination in American Indian Law and Literature

Our Beloved Kin: A New History of King Philip’s War Literary Indians: Aesthetics and Encounter in American Literature to 1920 Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation Modernity and Its Other: The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century

Witnessing Otherwise in John Gabriel Stedman’s Narrative, of a Five Years’ Expedition

Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History

Progressive Traditions: Identity in Cherokee Literature and Culture Sovereign Stories: Aesthetics, Autonomy, and Contemporary Native American Writing Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

A Storied Place: Jonathan Carver’s Travel Narrative and the Indigenous Map of the Upper Mississippi River Valley

Red Ink: Native Americans Picking Up the Pen in the Colonial Period the Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism on Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies

Obscure Invitations: The Persistence of the Author in Twentieth-Century American Literature Industry and the Creative Mind: The Eccentric Writer in American Literature and Entertainment, 1790-1860

Out of Brownsville: Encounters with Nobel Laureates and Other Jewish Writers American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States Race, Rights, and Recognition: Jewish American Literature Since 1969

The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War Each Hour Redeem: Time and Justice in African American Literature Constructing the Enemy: Empathy/Antipathy in US Literature and Law Plotting Justice: Narrative Ethics and Literary Culture After 9/11

The Black Female Body in Literature and Art: Performing Identity Writing the Black Revolutionary Diva: Women’s Subjectivity and the Decolonizing Text

The Great American Songbooks: Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture Sweet Air: Modernism, Regionalism, and American Popular Song

Preaching and the Rise of the American Novel Truth’s Ragged Edge: The Rise of the American Novel

Liberalism and the Culture of Security: The Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric of Reform Downwardly Mobile: The Changing Fortunes of American Realism

Hearing Sappho in New Orleans: The Call of Poetry from Congo Square to the Ninth Ward Boarding Out: Inhabiting the American Urban Literary Imagination, 1840-1860

Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s Primitive and Industrial Rhetoric Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities

Coyote Comes to the Norton : Indigenous Oral Narrative and American Literary History

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