Dec 15, 2009

Native American Short Fiction | Native American Short Fiction

Introduction

According to the conventional criteria used by literary scholars to define short fiction, the contributions of Native Americans to this genre are relatively recent. A consensus among commentators familiar with the field is that N. Scott Momaday’s novel House Made of Dawn (1968) marked the beginning of a new phase of cultural expression in which First Nation people joined other ethnic groups in finding publishers for their writing. As Leslie Marmon Silko, whose...

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Native American Short Fiction | Native American Short Fiction

Introduction

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