These themes pervade Geary Hobson's anthology of poetry, essays, and short stories by contemporary Native American writers. A Native American (Cherokee-Chickasaw), Hobson himself is a poet, short story writer, essayist, editor, university teacher, and ex-Marine. He knows this generation well: the writers he has selected, from the Atlantic coast to Hawaii, are for the most part young voices reaffirming the wisdom, "In remembering, there is strength and continuance and renewal through the generations."

 

Encyclopedia of Native American Indians is a comprehensive, accessible guide to more than 150 North American Indian nations. Organized alphabetically by tribe or group, the book summarizes the historical record--such as locations, migrations, contacts with non-Indians, wars--and includes present-day tribal status. Readers will get a brief look at traditional Indian lifeways, including language, families, clothing, houses, boats, tools, arts, legends, and rituals.

Richard Wright's "Native Son" (1940) is one of the most violent and revolutionary works in the American canon. Controversial and compelling, its account of crime and racism remain the source of profound disagreement both within African-American culture and throughout the world. This guide to Wright's provocative novel offers: an accessible introduction to the text and contexts of "Native Son"; a critical history, surveying the many interpretations of the text from publication to the present; a selection of reprinted critical essays on "Native Son", by James Baldwin, Hazel Rowley, Antony Dawahare, Claire Eby and James Smethurst...

Disclosing the existence and nature of longstanding, rich, and complex Native American literary and intellectual traditions that have typically been neglected or demeaned by literary criticism, Rain Forest Literatures analyzes four indigenous cultural traditions: the Carib, Tupi-Guarani, Upper Rio Negro, and Western Arawak. In each case, Sб considers principal native texts and, where relevant, their publication history. She offers a historical overview of the impact of these texts on mainstream Spanish-American and Brazilian literatures, detailing comparisons with native sources and making close analyses of major instances, such as Mбrio de Andrade’s classic Macunaima (1928) and Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Storyteller (1986).

The myths and legends in this book have been selected both for their excellence as stories and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Native American storytelling.

• A collection of Native American myths and legends.
• Selected for their excellence as stories, and because they illustrate the distinctive nature of Native American storytelling.
• Drawn from the oral traditions of all major areas of aboriginal North America.
• Reveals the highly practical functions of myths and legends in Native American societies.
• Illustrates American Indians’ profound engagement with their natural environment.
• Edited by an outstanding interpreter of Native American oral stories.