The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
"The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature is comprehensive and extensive.  It is a serious, insightful, and in-depth resource guide that's actually more than an overview.  Without a doubt, it is purposeful in providing scholars and lay readers a direction toward a full appreciation, understanding, and comprehension of the range and depth of powerful literature by Native Americans."    Simon J. Ortiz"An impressive collection of essays! Porter and Roemer have nicely framed a conversation by scholars on what Native literature was, is, and will become in the 21st century. Readers will find diversity in this volume--and by that I mean essays on poetry, fiction, history, and theater, and culture. The survey by these authors will no doubt evoke new inquiries into this thing we Indians call Story."    LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker"I have read The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature manuscript with interest and care. It is a distinguished work, clear in its writing, fortunate in its selections, thoroughly available to a wide audience, and expertly researched. Here is an invaluable resource, not only for students and teachers of Native American literature, but for anyone who has an interest in the subject. It is at once an excellent guide and the best of companions."    N. Scott Momaday"A part of the highly esteemed Cambridge "Companion" series, this immensely  rewarding volume is geared toward the serious student of Native American  literature and explores genres written since the 1770s." --Library Journal