num_pages: 368
description: This Companion provides an informative and wide-ranging overview of a relatively new field of literary-cultural literature of many genres in English by American Indians from the 1770s to the present day. In addition to the seventeen chapters written by respected experts--Native and non-Native; American, British and European scholars--it includes bio-bibliographies of forty authors, maps, suggestions for further reading, and a timeline which details major works of Native American and mainstream American literature, as well as significant social, cultural and historical events.
language: English
title: The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature
titlecomplete: The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
genres: Nonfiction, Reference, Literature
ratings_count: 23
publisher: Cambridge University Press