BIOGRAPHY

Van Dyke, Annette. “Paula Gunn Allen (1939- ).” In Contemporary Lesbian Writers of the United States: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook, pp. 5-12. Conn., Greenwood Press: edited by Sandra Pollack and Denise D. Knight, 1993.

Provides a brief overview of Allen's life and work.

CRITICISM

Bredin, Renae Moore. “Theory in the Mirror.” In Other Sisterhood: Literary Theory and U.S. Women of Color, pp. 228-43. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.

Focuses on the work of Leslie Marmon Silko and Paula Gunn Allen.

Brogan, Jacqueline Vaught. “‘Two Distinct Voices’: The Revolutionary Call of Susan Power's The Grass Dancer.” North Dakota Quarterly 67, no. 2 (spring 2000): 109-25.

Views Susan Power's The Grass Dancer as a response to Allen's The Sacred Hoop.

Donovan, Kathleen M. “Storytelling Women: Paula Gunn Allen and Toni Morrison.” In Feminist Readings of Native American Literature: Coming to Voice, pp. 123-37. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998.

Finds parallels between Allen's The Woman Who Owned the Shadows and Toni Morrison's Sula.

Foss, Karen A. Sonja K. Foss, and Cindy L. Griffin. “Paula Gunn Allen.” In Feminist Rhetorical Theories, pp. 191-26. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1999.

Provides a biographical and critical overview of Allen's life and works.

Hanson, Elizabeth. “Shadows in Paula Gunn Allen's Shadow Country.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 25, no. 2 (April 1994): 49-55.

Considers Allen's concept of self as portrayed in the poems of Shadow Country.

Karrer, Wolfgang. “Nostalgia, Amnesia, and Grandmothers: The Uses of Memory in Albert Murray, Sabine Ulibarri, Paula Gunn Allen, and Alice Walker.” In Memory, Narrative, and Identity: New Essays in Ethnic American Literatures, edited by Amritjit Singh, Joseph T. Skerrett, Jr., and Robert E. Hogan, pp. 128-44. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1994.

Examines the role of memory in the work of Allen, Albert Murray, Sabine Ulibarri, and Alice Walker.

Keating, AnaLouise. “Myth Smashers, Myth Makers: (Re)Visionary Techniques in the Works of Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Audre Lorde.” Journal of Homosexuality 26, no. 2-3 (1993): 73-95.

Analyzes the revisionist mythmaking strategies utilized by Gloria Anzaldúa, Allen, and Audre Lorde.

Moss, Maria. “Ephanie and Spider Woman, The Woman Who Owned the Shadows—And Still Does.” In We've Been Here Before: Women in Creation Myths and Contemporary Literature of the Native American Southwest, pp. 151-87. Munster, Germany: LIT Verlag, 1993.

Traces the psychological journey of Ephanie, the protagonist of The Woman Who Owned the Shadows.

St. Clair, Janet. “Uneasy Ethnocentrism: Recent Works of Allen, Silko, and Hogan.” SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literatures 6, no. 1 (spring 1994): 83-98.

Chronicles the struggles of Allen, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Linda Hogan to “resolve and transcend an awkward ethnocentrism.”

Toohey, Michelle Campbell. “Paula Gunn Allen's Grandmothers of the Light: Falling through the Void.” SAIL: Studies in American Indian Literature 12, no. 3 (fall 2000): 25-51.

Addresses the function of Allen's discursive style in Grandmothers of the Light.

Additional coverage of Allen's life and career is contained in the following sources published by Thomson Gale: American Writers Supplement, Vol. 4; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 112, 143; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 63, 130; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 84; Contemporary Women Poets; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 175; DISCovering Authors Modules: Multicultural; DISCovering Authors 3.0 Feminist Writers; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Ed. 1; Native North American Literature; and Reference Guide to American Literature, Ed. 4.