The Names (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: N. Scott Momaday
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1934-1976
- Setting: The Southwest
- Principal Characters: N. Scott Momaday, Alfred Morris Momaday, Natachee Scott Momaday, James, Mammedaty, Pohd-Lohk
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Culture
Form and Content
In 1968, thirty-four-year-old N. Scott Momaday wrote to his old friend and academic mentor, Yvor Winters, that he was planning a book of nonfiction, “an evocation of the American landscape informed by autobiographical elements and the history of the Kiowas.” His goal was to write “an indigenous book.” At this point in his life, Momaday, whose father was a full-blooded Kiowa and whose mother was of English, French, and Cherokee extraction, had begun to wonder about his Indian heritage and to explore his tribal and familial history. He had visited many of...
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