Lullaby | Historical Context
The Native American Literary Renaissance
A new generation of Native American writers emerged in the 1970s in what has been termed the Native American Renaissance in literature. Prominent writers of this generation include Leslie Silko, Paula Gunn Allen (b.1939), Louise Erdrich (b. 1954), Scott Momaday (b. 1934), James Welch (b. 1940), and others. Silko was in fact the first Native American woman ever to publish a novel. Erdrich's novel Love Medicine and Allen's novel The Woman Who Owned the Shadows have been compared to those of Silko in terms of their...
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