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Literary renaissance. In the work Native American Literatures: An Introduction, author Suzanne Lundquist suggests the Native American Renaissance has three elements: Reclamation of heritage through literary expression; Discovery and reevaluation of early texts by Native American authors; and
Four of the common themes found throughout works of Native American literature include a connection between people and the land, the chronicle of a hero ’s journey, an analysis of identity, and plot elements inspired by traditional storytelling and mythology.
Although literary scholars usually locate the Native American “renaissance” in the late 1960s and 1970s, the early twentieth century was a period of prolific activity by literate Native people in a wide range of genres and fields: autobiography, novel, short fiction, drama, poetry, ethnography, political writing, and publishing.
Summary. In the aftermath of House Made of Dawn (1968) the assumption arose that it heralded a Native American Renaissance, the unprecedented literary flowering of fiction, poetry, life-writing, drama and discursive work. The roster typically included novels by Leslie Marmon Silko, James Welsh, Louise Erdrich and Gerald Vizenor, the poetry of ...
Native American literature, the traditional oral and written literatures of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. These include ancient hieroglyphic and pictographic writings of Middle America as well as an extensive set of folktales, myths , and oral histories that were transmitted for centuries by storytellers and that live on in the ...
Native American Renaissance. The term "Native American Renaissance" was coined in 1983 by Kenneth Lincoln [2] to describe the flowering of literary work by Native American writers [3] in the late 1960s through the 1970s and into the 1980s.
The Cambridge History of Native American Literature , pp. 253 - 428. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699419. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2020.
