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Introduction KENNETH M. ROEMER I Timeline: literary, historical, and cultural conjunctions KENNETH M. ROEMER .5 Part I Historical and cultural contexts i. Historical and cultural contexts to Native American literature JOY PORTER 39 2. Translation and mediation DAVID MURRAY 69 3. Women writers and gender issues ANNETTE VAN DYKE 85 Part II Genre contexts 4. Non-fiction prose BERND PEYER 105 5. Native American life writing HERTHA D. SWEET WONG 125 6. America's indigenous poetry NORMA C. WILSON 145 7. Pre-1968 fiction A. LAVONNE BROWN RUOFF 161 8. Fiction: 1968 to the present JAMES RUPPERT 173 9. American Indian theatre ANN HAUGO 189 Part III Individual authors io. N. Scott Momaday: becoming the bear CHADWICK ALLEN 207 11. Simon Ortiz: writing home PATRICIA CLARK SMITH 221 12. James Welch: identity, circumstance, and chance KATHRYN W. SHANLEY 233 13. Leslie Marmon Silko: storyteller ROBERT M. NELSON 245 14. Gerald Vizenor: postindian liberation KIMBERLY M. BLAESER 257 15. Louise Erdrich's storied universe CATHERINE RAINWATER 271 16. Joy Harjo's poetry LAURA COLTELLI 283 17. Sherman Alexie: irony, intimacy, and agency DAVID L. MOORE 297 Bio-bibliographies 311 Further reading 329 Index 331